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title: Psalms 139:19 (JPS 1917) — If Thou but wouldest slay the wicked, O God — depart from me therefo… · tree and pragmatics
description: If Thou but wouldest slay the wicked, O God — depart from me therefore, ye men of blood; Who acts: Thou, you. Psalms 139:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 139:19 · JPS 1917

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If Thou but wouldest slay the wicked, O God — depart from me therefore, ye men of blood;

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**Who acts:** Thou, you · **What happens:** slay, depart · **To what, where:** wicked

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This is Psalms 139:19 · 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 (Thou, you), 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:2544
# text = If Thou but wouldest slay the wicked, O God — depart from me therefore, ye men of blood;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	vocative	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Thou | the wicked |  |  |  | but *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Patient |
| 2 | **depart** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from me; God *vocative*; ye's men of blood *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_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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אִם־תִּקְטֹ֖ל אֱל֥וֹהַּ ׀ רָשָׁ֑ע וְאַנְשֵׁ֥י דָ֝מִ֗ים ס֣וּרוּ מֶֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 139:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.19/)

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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:2544` 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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