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title: Psalms 17:12 (JPS 1917) — He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places. Who acts: judgment, lion, young lion. Psalms 17:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 17:12 · JPS 1917

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He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

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**Who acts:** judgment, lion, young lion · **What happens:** be, tear, lurk · **To what, where:** pieces, secret places

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This is Psalms 17:12 · 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 (judgment, lion, young lion), 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:207
# text = He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	lurking	lurk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | judgment |  |  |  |  | like a lion and a young lion | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a lion and a young lion |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tear** | to-infinitive | a lion and a young lion *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lurk** | gerund | a young lion *not said here* |  |  | secret places |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 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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דִּמְיֹנ֗וֹ כְּ֭אַרְיֵה יִכְס֣וֹף לִטְר֑וֹף וְ֝כִכְפִ֗יר יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃

[Psalms 17:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.12/)

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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:207` 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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