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title: Psalms 26:4 (JPS 1917) — I have not sat with men of falsehood; neither will I go in with diss… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have not sat with men of falsehood; neither will I go in with dissemblers. Who acts: I. Psalms 26:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 26:4 · JPS 1917

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I have not sat with men of falsehood; neither will I go in with dissemblers.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not sit, go · **To what, where:** dissemblers

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This is Psalms 26:4 · 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 (I), 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:385
# text = I have not sat with men of falsehood; neither will I go in with dissemblers.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RB	_	16	case	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dissemblers	dissembler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **sit** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with men of falsehood | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | future | I |  |  | dissemblers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dissembler=Location |

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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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לֹא־יָ֭שַׁבְתִּי עִם־מְתֵי־שָׁ֑וְא וְעִ֥ם נַ֝עֲלָמִ֗ים לֹ֣א אָבֽוֹא׃

[Psalms 26:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.26.4/)

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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:385` 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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