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title: Psalms 54:5 (JPS 1917) — For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought a… · tree and pragmatics
description: For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them. Who acts: violent men, men. Psalms 54:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 54:5 · JPS 1917

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For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them.

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**Who acts:** violent men, men · **What happens:** rise up, seek, not set · **To what, where:** strangers, God

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This is Psalms 54:5 · 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 (violent men, men), 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:886
# text = For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RP	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **rise up** | present · passive |  | strangers |  |  |  | against me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | present · perfect | violent men |  |  |  | after my soul |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **set** | present · perfect | men *= man* | God |  |  | before strangers *= stranger* |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent god=Theme before they=Destination |

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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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כִּ֤י זָרִ֨ים ׀ קָ֤מוּ עָלַ֗י וְֽ֭עָרִיצִים בִּקְשׁ֣וּ נַפְשִׁ֑י לֹ֤א שָׂ֨מוּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לְנֶגְדָּ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 54:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.54.5/)

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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:886` 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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