--- title: Psalms 35:1 (JPS 1917) — Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them th… · tree and pragmatics description: Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me. Who acts: you. Psalms 35:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.530/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/35/) / [35:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.1/) / JPS 2 # Psalms 35:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** strive, fight This is Psalms 35:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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), 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:530 # text = Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me. 1 Strive strive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 strive strive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 14 against against ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strive** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with them *= they*; LORD *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **strive** | present | | | | | | with me | tree rules | | 3 | **fight** | infinitive | | | | | | against them *= they* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fight** | present | | | | | | against me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ רִיבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אֶת־יְרִיבַ֑י לְ֝חַ֗ם אֶת־לֹֽחֲמָֽי׃ [Psalms 35:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.529/) 2. **Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:530` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 35:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.529/) - next →: [Psalms 35:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.531/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 35:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.1/)