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title: Psalms 55:11 (JPS 1917) — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also… · tree and pragmatics
description: Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it. Who acts: violence, iniquity. Psalms 55:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:11 · JPS 1917

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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

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**Who acts:** violence, iniquity · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** midst

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This is Psalms 55:11 · 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 (violence, iniquity), 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:902
# text = Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
1	Day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | present | violence |  |  |  | day | about city; upon the walls | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | iniquity and mischief |  |  | the midst |  | of city | 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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יוֹמָ֤ם וָלַ֗יְלָה יְסוֹבְבֻ֥הָ עַל־חוֹמֹתֶ֑יהָ וְאָ֖וֶן וְעָמָ֣ל בְּקִרְבָּֽהּ׃

[Psalms 55:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.11/)

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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:902` 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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