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title: Psalms 37:8 (JPS 1917) — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself, it tendeth on… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing. Who acts: you, wrath. Psalms 37:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 37:8 · JPS 1917

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Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.

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**Who acts:** you, wrath · **What happens:** cease, forsake, not fret, tend · **To what, where:** anger, wrath, thyself

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This is Psalms 37:8 · 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, wrath), 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:581
# text = Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.
1	Cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fret	fret	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tendeth	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	doing	doing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | anger |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **forsake** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wrath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fret** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tend** | present | wrath |  |  |  |  | to evil doing | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to doing=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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הֶ֣רֶף מֵ֭אַף וַעֲזֹ֣ב חֵמָ֑ה אַל־תִּ֝תְחַ֗ר אַךְ־לְהָרֵֽעַ׃

[Psalms 37:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.8/)

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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:581` 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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