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title: Psalms 41:9 (JPS 1917) — 'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he sha… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.' Who acts: evil thing, thing. Psalms 41:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 41:9 · JPS 1917

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'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.'

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**Who acts:** evil thing, thing · **What happens:** cleave, lie, rise up

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This is Psalms 41:9 · 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 (evil thing, thing), 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:682
# text = 'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cleaveth	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lieth	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | present | a evil thing |  |  |  |  | unto LORD; fast *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | present | thing |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise up** | shall | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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דְּֽבַר־בְּ֭לִיַּעַל יָצ֣וּק בּ֑וֹ וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁ֝כַ֗ב לֹא־יוֹסִ֥יף לָקֽוּם׃

[Psalms 41:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.9/)

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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:682` 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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