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title: Psalms 109:10 (JPS 1917) — Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their brea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places. Who acts: you, children. Psalms 109:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:10 · JPS 1917

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Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

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**Who acts:** you, children · **What happens:** let, be, beg, seek · **To what, where:** children, vagabonds, bread, desolate places

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This is Psalms 109:10 · 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, children), 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:2024
# text = Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
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	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	vagabonds	vagabond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | man's children |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | man's children *not said here* | vagabonds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children's bread |  | children's desolate places |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme out place=Location |

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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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וְנ֤וֹעַ יָנ֣וּעוּ בָנָ֣יו וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּ מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 109:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.10/)

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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:2024` 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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