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title: Psalms 52:1 (JPS 1917) — Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him: 'David is come to the house of Ahimelech.' Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man? Who acts: Doeg, David, thou. Psalms 52:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 52:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him: 'David is come to the house of Ahimelech.' Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man?

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**Who acts:** Doeg, David, thou · **What happens:** come, tell, say, boast · **To what, where:** Saul, house, thyself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 52:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Doeg, David, thou), 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:864
# text = Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him: 'David is come to the house of Ahimelech.' Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man?
1	Maschil	Maschil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Doeg	Doeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Edomite	Edomite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ahimelech	Ahimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
30	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	boastest	boast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
33	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	vocative	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Doeg |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Doeg *not said here* |  | Saul |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saul=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Doeg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Doeg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | David |  |  | the house of Ahimelech |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | thou | thyself |  |  |  | of evil; mighty man *vocative* | 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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לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְדָוִֽד׃

[Psalms 52:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For the Leader.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.863/)
2. **Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him: 'David is come to the house of Ahimelech.' Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man?**

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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:864` 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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