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title: Psalms 5:5 (JPS 1917) — For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee. Who acts: Thou, God, evil. Psalms 5:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 5:5 · JPS 1917

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For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee.

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**Who acts:** Thou, God, evil · **What happens:** not be, have, not sojourn · **To what, where:** God, pleasure, wickedness

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This is Psalms 5:5 · 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 (Thou, God, evil), 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:45
# text = For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	God	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	sojourn	sojourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Thou | a God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | a God | pleasure |  | wickedness |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **sojourn** | shall | evil |  |  |  |  | with Thee | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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כִּ֤י ׀ לֹ֤א אֵֽל־חָפֵ֘ץ רֶ֥שַׁע ׀ אָ֑תָּה לֹ֖א יְגֻרְךָ֣ רָֽע׃

[Psalms 5:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.5/)

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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:45` 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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