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title: Psalms 140:9 (JPS 1917) — Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; further not his evil d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; further not his evil device, so that they exalt themselves. Who acts: you, desires. Psalms 140:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 140:9 · JPS 1917

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Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; further not his evil device, so that they exalt themselves.

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**Who acts:** you, desires · **What happens:** not grant, not device, exalt, desire · **To what, where:** desires, evil, wicked

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This is Psalms 140:9 · 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 (you, desires), 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:2560
# text = Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; further not his evil device, so that they exalt themselves.
1	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	further	further	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
17	device	device	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	exalt	exalt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grant** | imperative | you *not said here* | the desires of the wicked |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **device** | infinitive |  | LORD's evil |  |  |  | further *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exalt** | present | desires *= desire* | desires *= desire* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 4 | **desire** |  |  | the wicked |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן יְ֭הוָה מַאֲוַיֵּ֣י רָשָׁ֑ע זְמָמ֥וֹ אַל־תָּ֝פֵ֗ק יָר֥וּמוּ סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 140:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.9/)

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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:2560` 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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