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title: Psalms 4:3 (JPS 1917) — O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that y… · tree and pragmatics
description: O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Who acts: ye, my. Psalms 4:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 4:3 · JPS 1917

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O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood?

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**Who acts:** ye, my · **What happens:** put, love, seek, glory · **To what, where:** glory, vanity

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This is Psalms 4:3 · 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 (ye, my), 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:33
# text = O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood?
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	det	_	_
3	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	vocative	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	fixed	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | shall · passive |  | my glory |  |  |  | to shame; ye sons of men *vocative*; long *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **love** | present | ye | vanity |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vanity=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seek** | present | ye *not said here* |  |  |  | after falsehood |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **glory** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: 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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בְּנֵ֥י אִ֡ישׁ עַד־מֶ֬ה כְבוֹדִ֣י לִ֭כְלִמָּה תֶּאֱהָב֣וּן רִ֑יק תְּבַקְשׁ֖וּ כָזָ֣ב סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 4:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.4.3/)

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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:33` 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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