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title: Psalms 140:11 (JPS 1917) — Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again. Who acts: you, burning coals, coals. Psalms 140:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 140:11 · JPS 1917

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Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

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**Who acts:** you, burning coals, coals · **What happens:** let, fall, cast, not rise up · **To what, where:** burning coals, coals, fire

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This is Psalms 140:11 · 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, burning coals, coals), 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:2562
# text = Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	burning	burning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | burning coals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | burning coals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon coals *= coal* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | coals *= coal* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast** | infinitive · passive | coals *= coal* *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  | into deep pits | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into fire=Product |
| 5 | **not** **rise up** | infinitive | coals *= coal* |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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יִמּ֥וֹטוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֝מַהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּֽל־יָקֽוּמוּ׃

[Psalms 140:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.11/)

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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:2562` 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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