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title: Psalms 35:8 (JPS 1917) — Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he hath… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself; with destruction let him fall therein. Who acts: you, destruction, LORD, net. Psalms 35:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:8 · JPS 1917

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Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself; with destruction let him fall therein.

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**Who acts:** you, destruction, LORD, net · **What happens:** let, come, hide, catch, fall · **To what, where:** destruction, net, LORD

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This is Psalms 35:8 · 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, destruction, LORD, net), 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:537
# text = Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself; with destruction let him fall therein.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	unawares	unawares	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | destruction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | destruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon LORD; unawares *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | LORD's net |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | present · perfect | LORD | LORD's net |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 5 | **catch** | infinitive | LORD's net *not said here* | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with destruction; therein *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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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תְּבוֹאֵ֣הוּ שׁוֹאָה֮ לֹֽא־יֵ֫דָ֥ע וְרִשְׁתּ֣וֹ אֲשֶׁר־טָמַ֣ן תִּלְכְּד֑וֹ בְּ֝שׁוֹאָ֗ה יִפָּל־בָּֽהּ׃

[Psalms 35:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.8/)

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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:537` 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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