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title: Psalms 35:7 (JPS 1917) — For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, with… · tree and pragmatics
description: For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, without cause have they digged for my soul. Who acts: spear. Psalms 35:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:7 · JPS 1917

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For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, without cause have they digged for my soul.

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**Who acts:** spear · **What happens:** hide, dig · **To what, where:** pit

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This is Psalms 35:7 · 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 (spear), 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:536
# text = For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, without cause have they digged for my soul.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	digged	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hide** | present · perfect | spear | the pit |  |  |  | without cause; for me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient |
| 2 | **dig** | present · perfect | spear |  |  |  |  | without cause; for my soul | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for soul=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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כִּֽי־חִנָּ֣ם טָֽמְנוּ־לִ֭י שַׁ֣חַת רִשְׁתָּ֑ם חִ֝נָּ֗ם חָפְר֥וּ לְנַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Psalms 35:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.7/)

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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:536` 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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