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title: Psalms 7:10 (JPS 1917) — Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins. Who acts: full measure, Thou, righteous God. Psalms 7:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 7:10 · JPS 1917

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Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.

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**Who acts:** full measure, Thou, righteous God · **What happens:** come, establish, try, measure · **To what, where:** wicked, righteous, heart, evil

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This is Psalms 7:10 · 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 (full measure, Thou, righteous God), 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:75
# text = Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	God	God	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	trieth	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | might | a full measure of evil |  |  | the wicked |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wicked=Location |
| 2 | **establish** | would | Thou | the righteous |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteous=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | present | the righteous God | the heart and reins |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **measure** |  |  | evil |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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יִגְמָר־נָ֬א רַ֨ע ׀ רְשָׁעִים֮ וּתְכוֹנֵ֪ן צַ֫דִּ֥יק וּבֹחֵ֣ן לִ֭בּ֗וֹת וּכְלָי֗וֹת אֱלֹהִ֥ים צַדִּֽיק׃

[Psalms 7:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.10/)

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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:75` of Mova's parse database.

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