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title: Psalms 139:20 (JPS 1917) — Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood, even Thine enemies — Who acts: men, Thy. Psalms 139:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 139:20 · JPS 1917

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Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood, even Thine enemies —

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**Who acts:** men, Thy · **What happens:** utter, take, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is Psalms 139:20 · 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 (men, Thy), 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:2545
# text = Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood, even Thine enemies —
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	utter	utter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | present |  | Thy name |  |  |  | with wicked thought | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present | men *= man* | name |  |  |  | for falsehood; Thine enemies *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for falsehood=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֹ֭אמְרֻךָ לִמְזִמָּ֑ה נָשֻׂ֖א לַשָּׁ֣וְא עָרֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 139:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.20/)

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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:2545` 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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