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title: Psalms 55:10 (JPS 1917) — Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 55:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:10 · JPS 1917

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Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** destroy, divide, see · **To what, where:** tongue, violence, city

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This is Psalms 55:10 · 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 (you, I), 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:901
# text = Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
1	Destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
15	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **divide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wind's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | I | violence and strife |  | the city |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violence=Stimulus |

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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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בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם כִּֽי־רָאִ֨יתִי חָמָ֖ס וְרִ֣יב בָּעִֽיר׃

[Psalms 55:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.10/)

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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:901` 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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