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title: Psalms 109:28 (JPS 1917) — Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice. Who acts: you, knees, Thou, servant. Psalms 109:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:28 · JPS 1917

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Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.

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**Who acts:** you, knees, Thou, servant · **What happens:** let, curse, bless, arise, put, rejoice · **To what, where:** knees

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This is Psalms 109:28 · 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, knees, Thou, servant), 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:2042
# text = Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	.	.	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* | knees *= knee* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **curse** | infinitive | knees *= knee* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bless** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **arise** | present | knees *= knee* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | shall · passive |  | knees *= knee* |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 6 | **rejoice** | shall | Thy servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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יְקַֽלְלוּ־הֵמָּה֮ וְאַתָּ֪ה תְבָ֫רֵ֥ךְ קָ֤מוּ ׀ וַיֵּבֹ֗שׁוּ וְֽעַבְדְּךָ֥ יִשְׂמָֽח׃

[Psalms 109:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.28/)

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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:2042` of Mova's parse database.

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