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title: Psalms 35:21 (JPS 1917) — Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.' Who acts: enemies, eye. Psalms 35:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:21 · JPS 1917

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Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'

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**Who acts:** enemies, eye · **What happens:** open, say, see · **To what, where:** mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 35:21 · 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 (enemies, eye), 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:551
# text = Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
15	Aha	aha	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	22	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	aha	aha	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	22	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | enemies *= enemy* | enemies's mouth |  |  |  | against me; wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme against i=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | our eye | mouth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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וַיַּרְחִ֥יבוּ עָלַ֗י פִּ֫יהֶ֥ם אָ֭מְרוּ הֶאָ֣ח ׀ הֶאָ֑ח רָאֲתָ֥ה עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

[Psalms 35:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.21/)

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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:551` 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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