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title: Psalms 109:11 (JPS 1917) — Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. Who acts: you, creditor, strangers. Psalms 109:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:11 · JPS 1917

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Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

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**Who acts:** you, creditor, strangers · **What happens:** let, distrain, have, make, spoil · **To what, where:** all, spoil, labour

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This is Psalms 109:11 · 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, creditor, strangers), 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:2025
# text = Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	distrain	distrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
14	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **distrain** | infinitive | the creditor | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | creditor |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | strangers | spoil of creditor's labour |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spoil=Product |
| 6 | **spoil** |  |  | creditor's labour |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נ֭וֹשֶׁה לְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֑וֹ וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 109:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.11/)

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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:2025` 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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