--- title: Psalms 35:4 (JPS 1917) — Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul… · tree and pragmatics description: Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt. Who acts: you, spear, my. Psalms 35:4 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.533/) [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/) / [35:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.4/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 35:4 · JPS 1917 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt. **Who acts:** you, spear, my · **What happens:** let, be, bring, seek, turn back, abash · **To what, where:** confusion, spear, hurt This is Psalms 35:4 · 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 (you, spear, 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:533 # text = Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 confusion confusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seek seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 abashed abash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 devise devise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | spear | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | participle | spear *not said here* | | | confusion | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to confusion=Destination | | 4 | **seek** | present | | | | | after my soul | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn back** | infinitive · passive | | spear | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **abash** | infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 8 | **devise** | present | | my hurt | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient | | 9 | **hurt** | | my | | | | | | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=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} יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ וְיִכָּלְמוּ֮ מְבַקְשֵׁ֪י נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֣וֹר וְיַחְפְּר֑וּ חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י רָעָתִֽי׃ [Psalms 35:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:533` 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 35:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.532/) - next →: [Psalms 35:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.534/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 35:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.4/)