---
title: Psalms 6:8 (JPS 1917) — Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries. Who acts: eye. Psalms 6:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/6/) / [6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 6:8 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** dim, wax · **To what, where:** eye

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 6:8 · 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 (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:62
# text = Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
1	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dimmed	dim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	waxeth	wax	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dim** | present · passive |  | Mine eye |  |  |  | because vexation | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **wax** | present | eye |  |  |  |  | because mine adversaries; old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣ה מִכַּ֣עַס עֵינִ֑י עָֽ֝תְקָ֗ה בְּכָל־צוֹרְרָֽי׃

[Psalms 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:62` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 6:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.61/)
- next →: [Psalms 6:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.63/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/)