---
title: Psalms 52:6 (JPS 1917) — Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 52:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.868/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/52/) / [52:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 52:6 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** love, devour · **To what, where:** devouring words

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 52:6 · 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 (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:868
# text = Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lovest	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Thou | all devouring words |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **devour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אָהַ֥בְתָּ כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה׃

[Psalms 52:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:868` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 52:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.867/)
- next →: [Psalms 52:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.869/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 52:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/)