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title: Psalms 109:18 (JPS 1917) — He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is… · tree and pragmatics
description: He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones. Who acts: sin, cursing. Psalms 109:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:18 · JPS 1917

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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.

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**Who acts:** sin, cursing · **What happens:** clothe, come · **To what, where:** sin, inward parts

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This is Psalms 109:18 · 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 (sin, cursing), 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:2032
# text = He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cursing	cursing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	orphan	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **clothe** | past | sin | sin |  |  |  | with cursing; as sin's raiment | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present · passive | cursing |  |  | sin's inward parts |  | like water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial\_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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וַיִּלְבַּ֥שׁ קְלָלָ֗ה כְּמַ֫דּ֥וֹ וַתָּבֹ֣א כַמַּ֣יִם בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְ֝כַשֶּׁ֗מֶן בְּעַצְמוֹתָֽיו׃

[Psalms 109:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.18/)

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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:2032` 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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