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title: Psalms 35:11 (JPS 1917) — Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. · tree and pragmatics
description: Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. Who acts: Unrighteous witnesses, witnesses, I. Psalms 35:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:11 · JPS 1917

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Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.

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**Who acts:** Unrighteous witnesses, witnesses, I · **What happens:** rise up, ask, not know · **To what, where:** me, things

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This is Psalms 35:11 · 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 (Unrighteous witnesses, witnesses, I), 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:540
# text = Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
1	Unrighteous	unrighteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **rise up** | present | Unrighteous witnesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | witnesses *= witness* |  | me |  |  | of things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present | I | things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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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יְ֭קוּמוּן עֵדֵ֣י חָמָ֑ס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי יִשְׁאָלֽוּנִי׃

[Psalms 35:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.11/)

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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:540` 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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