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title: Psalms 119:51 (JPS 1917) — The proud have had me greatly in derision; yet have I not turned asi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The proud have had me greatly in derision; yet have I not turned aside from Thy law. Who acts: proud, I. Psalms 119:51 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:51 · JPS 1917

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The proud have had me greatly in derision; yet have I not turned aside from Thy law.

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**Who acts:** proud, I · **What happens:** have, not turn · **To what, where:** me, derision, law

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This is Psalms 119:51 · 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 (proud, 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:2214
# text = The proud have had me greatly in derision; yet have I not turned aside from Thy law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | the proud | me |  | derision |  | greatly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **turn** | present · perfect | I |  |  | Thy law |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from law=Trajectory |

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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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זֵ֭דִים הֱלִיצֻ֣נִי עַד־מְאֹ֑ד מִ֝תּֽוֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א נָטִֽיתִי׃

[Psalms 119:51: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.51/)

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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:2214` 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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