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title: Psalms 141:4 (JPS 1917) — Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties. Who acts: you, men, me. Psalms 141:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:4 · JPS 1917

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Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.

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**Who acts:** you, men, me · **What happens:** not incline, occupy, work, let, not eat · **To what, where:** heart, deeds, iniquity, me

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This is Psalms 141:4 · 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, men, me), 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:2570
# text = Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.
1	Incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **incline** | imperative | you *not said here* | my heart |  |  |  | to any evil thing | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to thing=Theme |
| 2 | **occupy** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  | deeds of wickedness |  | with men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **work** | present | men | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent iniquity=Material |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of men's dainties | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of dainty=Source |

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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־תַּט־לִבִּ֨י לְדָבָ֪ר ׀ רָ֡ע לְהִתְע֘וֹלֵ֤ל עֲלִל֨וֹת ׀ בְּרֶ֗שַׁע אֶת־אִישִׁ֥ים פֹּֽעֲלֵי־אָ֑וֶן וּבַל־אֶ֝לְחַ֗ם בְּמַנְעַמֵּיהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 141:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.4/)

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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:2570` 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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