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title: Psalms 37:1 (JPS 1917) — Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious agai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. Who acts: you, thou. Psalms 37:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 37:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** not fret, be, work · **To what, where:** thyself, unrighteousness

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This is Psalms 37:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, thou), 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:574
# text = Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.
1	Fret	fret	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
4	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	doers	doer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	unrighteousness	unrighteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fret** | imperative | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  | because evil doers | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | against doers *= doer*; envious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present |  | unrighteousness |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent unrighteousness=Material |

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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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לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ אַל־תִּתְחַ֥ר בַּמְּרֵעִ֑ים אַל־תְּ֝קַנֵּ֗א בְּעֹשֵׂ֥י עַוְלָֽה׃

[Psalms 37:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.573/)
2. **Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.**

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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:574` 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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