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title: Psalms 119:85 (JPS 1917) — The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law. · tree and pragmatics
description: The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law. Who acts: proud. Psalms 119:85 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:85 · JPS 1917

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The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law.

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**Who acts:** proud · **What happens:** dig, accord, not be · **To what, where:** pits

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This is Psalms 119:85 · 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), 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:2249
# text = The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	proud	proud	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	digged	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present · perfect | the proud | pits |  |  |  | for me | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pit=Result for i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | accord Thy law | tree rules |

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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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כָּֽרוּ־לִ֣י זֵדִ֣ים שִׁיח֑וֹת אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לֹ֣א כְתוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 119:85: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.85/)

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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:2249` 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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