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title: Psalms 37:14 (JPS 1917) — The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cas… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cast down the poor and needy, to slay such as are upright in the way; Who acts: wicked. Psalms 37:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 37:14 · JPS 1917

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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cast down the poor and needy, to slay such as are upright in the way;

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**Who acts:** wicked · **What happens:** draw out, bend, cast down, slay, be · **To what, where:** sword, bow, poor, such, way

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This is Psalms 37:14 · 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 (wicked), 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:587
# text = The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cast down the poor and needy, to slay such as are upright in the way;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** | present · perfect | the wicked | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | present · perfect | the wicked *not said here* | teeth's bow |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material |
| 3 | **cast down** | to-infinitive | the wicked *not said here* | the poor |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Product |
| 4 | **slay** | to-infinitive | the wicked *not said here* | such |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent such=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the way |  | upright *property* | tree rules |

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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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חֶ֤רֶב ׀ פָּֽתְח֣וּ רְשָׁעִים֮ וְדָרְכ֪וּ קַ֫שְׁתָּ֥ם לְ֭הַפִּיל עָנִ֣י וְאֶבְי֑וֹן לִ֝טְב֗וֹחַ יִשְׁרֵי־דָֽרֶךְ׃

[Psalms 37:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.14/)

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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:587` 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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