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title: Psalms 5:7 (JPS 1917) — Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit. Who acts: Thou, LORD. Psalms 5:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 5:7 · JPS 1917

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Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit.

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**Who acts:** Thou, LORD · **What happens:** destroy, speak, abhor · **To what, where:** workers, falsehood, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 5:7 · 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, LORD), 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:47
# text = Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	destroyest	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	abhorreth	abhor	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **destroy** | present | Thou | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  | falsehood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **abhor** | present | the LORD | the man of blood and deceit |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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תְּאַבֵּד֮ דֹּבְרֵ֪י כָ֫זָ֥ב אִישׁ־דָּמִ֥ים וּמִרְמָ֗ה יְתָ֘עֵ֥ב ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 5:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.7/)

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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:47` 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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