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title: Psalms 109:8 (JPS 1917) — Let his days be few; let another take his charge. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let his days be few; let another take his charge. Who acts: you, days, another, man. Psalms 109:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:8 · JPS 1917

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Let his days be few; let another take his charge.

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**Who acts:** you, days, another, man · **What happens:** let, be, take, charge · **To what, where:** charge

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This is Psalms 109:8 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, days, another, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:2022
# text = Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | man's days |  |  |  |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | another | man's charge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 5 | **charge** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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יִֽהְיֽוּ־יָמָ֥יו מְעַטִּ֑ים פְּ֝קֻדָּת֗וֹ יִקַּ֥ח אַחֵֽר׃

[Psalms 109:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2022` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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