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title: Psalms 39:12 (JPS 1917) — With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Who acts: Thou, beauty, man. Psalms 39:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 39:12 · JPS 1917

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With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity.

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**Who acts:** Thou, beauty, man · **What happens:** chasten, make, consume away, be · **To what, where:** man, beauty, vanity

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This is Psalms 39:12 · 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 (Thou, beauty, man), 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:650
# text = With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rebukes	rebuke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chasten	chasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	makest	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chasten** | present · do-support | Thou | man |  |  |  | with rebukes; for iniquity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for iniquity=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | present | Thou | man's beauty |  |  |  | like a moth | tree rules |
| 3 | **consume away** | to-infinitive | man's beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | every man | vanity |  |  |  | surely *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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בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 39:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.12/)

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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:650` 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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