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title: Psalms 118:12 (JPS 1917) — They compass me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: They compass me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off. Who acts: nations, I. Psalms 118:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 118:12 · JPS 1917

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They compass me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

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**Who acts:** nations, I · **What happens:** compass about, quench, cut off, fire, name · **To what, where:** me, nations, name, thorns, LORD

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This is Psalms 118:12 · 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 (nations, I), 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:2144
# text = They compass me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compass	compass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compass about** | present | nations *= nation* | me |  |  |  | like bees | tree rules |
| 2 | **quench** | present · passive |  | nations *= nation* |  |  |  | as the fire of thorns | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cut off** | future | I | nations *= nation* |  | the name of the LORD |  | verily *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fire** |  |  | thorns |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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סַבּ֤וּנִי כִדְבוֹרִ֗ים דֹּ֭עֲכוּ כְּאֵ֣שׁ קוֹצִ֑ים בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְ֝הוָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲמִילַֽם׃

[Psalms 118:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.12/)

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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:2144` 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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