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title: Psalms 119:78 (JPS 1917) — Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; but I will meditate in Thy precepts. Who acts: proud, mercies, I, my. Psalms 119:78 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:78 · JPS 1917

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Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; but I will meditate in Thy precepts.

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**Who acts:** proud, mercies, I, my · **What happens:** let, put, distort, meditate, cause · **To what, where:** cause, precepts

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This is Psalms 119:78 · 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, mercies, I, my), 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:2241
# text = Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; but I will meditate in Thy precepts.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proud	proud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	distorted	distort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	meditate	meditate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | the proud |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive · passive | the proud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **distort** | present · perfect | mercies *= mercy* | my cause |  |  |  | with falsehood | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cause=Material |
| 4 | **meditate** | future | I |  |  | Thy precepts |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ זֵ֭דִים כִּי־שֶׁ֣קֶר עִוְּת֑וּנִי אֲ֝נִ֗י אָשִׂ֥יחַ בְּפִקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 119:78: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.78/)

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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:2241` 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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