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title: Psalms 7:5 (JPS 1917) — If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine advers… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness; Who acts: I. Psalms 7:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 7:5 · JPS 1917

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If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** requite, do, spoil · **To what, where:** LORD, evil, adversary

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This is Psalms 7:5 · 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 (I), 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:70
# text = If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	requited	requite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	emptiness	emptiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **requite** | present · perfect | I | LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | evil |  |  |  | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spoil** | participle | I *not said here* | mine adversary |  |  |  | unto emptiness | 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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אִם־גָּ֭מַלְתִּי שֽׁוֹלְמִ֥י רָ֑ע וָאֲחַלְּצָ֖ה צוֹרְרִ֣י רֵיקָֽם׃

[Psalms 7:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.5/)

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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:70` 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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