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title: Psalms 140:6 (JPS 1917) — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net… · tree and pragmatics
description: The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Who acts: proud, snare. Psalms 140:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 140:6 · JPS 1917

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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.

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**Who acts:** proud, snare · **What happens:** hide, spread, set · **To what, where:** snare, net, gins

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This is Psalms 140:6 · 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, snare), 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:2557
# text = The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.
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|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	gins	gin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · perfect | the proud | a snare and cords |  |  |  | for me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | present · perfect | snare | a net |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme by wayside=Destination |
| 3 | **set** | present · perfect | snare | gins |  |  |  | for me | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gin=Patient for i=Beneficiary |

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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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טָֽמְנֽוּ־גֵאִ֨ים ׀ פַּ֡ח לִ֗י וַחֲבָלִ֗ים פָּ֣רְשׂוּ רֶ֭שֶׁת לְיַד־מַעְגָּ֑ל מֹקְשִׁ֖ים שָֽׁתוּ־לִ֣י סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 140:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.6/)

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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:2557` 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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