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title: Psalms 109:13 (JPS 1917) — Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Who acts: you, posterity, generation, name. Psalms 109:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:13 · JPS 1917

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Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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**Who acts:** you, posterity, generation, name, children · **What happens:** let, cut off, follow, blot out, name · **To what, where:** posterity, name, generation

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This is Psalms 109:13 · 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, posterity, generation, name), 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:2027
# text = Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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	posterity	posterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	blotted	blot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
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* | creditor's posterity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | infinitive · passive | creditor's posterity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | the generation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | children's name |  |  | in the generation |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **blot out** | infinitive · passive | children's name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **name** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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יְהִֽי־אַחֲרִית֥וֹ לְהַכְרִ֑ית בְּד֥וֹר אַ֝חֵ֗ר יִמַּ֥ח שְׁמָֽם׃

[Psalms 109:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.13/)

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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:2027` 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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