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title: Psalms 7:6 (JPS 1917) — Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, and tread my life dow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, and tread my life down to the earth; yea, let him lay my glory in the dust. Who acts: you, enemy, my. Psalms 7:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 7:6 · JPS 1917

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Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, and tread my life down to the earth; yea, let him lay my glory in the dust.

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**Who acts:** you, enemy, my · **What happens:** let, pursue, overtake, tread down, lay, glory · **To what, where:** soul, life, glory, dust

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This is Psalms 7:6 · 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 (you, enemy, my), 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:71
# text = Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, and tread my life down to the earth; yea, let him lay my glory in the dust.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pursue** | infinitive | the enemy | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 3 | **overtake** | infinitive | the enemy *not said here* | soul |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tread down** | infinitive | the enemy *not said here* | my life |  |  |  | to the earth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location life=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive | enemy | my glory |  | the dust |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent glory=Theme in dust=Destination |
| 7 | **glory** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=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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יִֽרַדֹּ֥ף אוֹיֵ֨ב ׀ נַפְשִׁ֡י וְיַשֵּׂ֗ג וְיִרְמֹ֣ס לָאָ֣רֶץ חַיָּ֑י וּכְבוֹדִ֓י ׀ לֶעָפָ֖ר יַשְׁכֵּ֣ן סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.6/)

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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:71` 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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