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title: Psalms 55:24 (JPS 1917) — But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men o… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee. Who acts: Thou, men, I. Psalms 55:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:24 · JPS 1917

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But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.

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**Who acts:** Thou, men, I · **What happens:** bring down, not live out, trust · **To what, where:** words, nethermost pit, Thee

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This is Psalms 55:24 · 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, men, 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:915
# text = But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	nethermost	nethermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring down** | future | Thou | words *= word* |  | the nethermost pit |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pit=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **live out** | shall | men of blood and deceit |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** | future | I |  |  | Thee |  | as me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְאַתָּ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ תּוֹרִדֵ֬ם ׀ לִבְאֵ֬ר שַׁ֗חַת אַנְשֵׁ֤י דָמִ֣ים וּ֭מִרְמָה לֹא־יֶחֱצ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וַ֝אֲנִ֗י אֶבְטַח־בָּֽךְ׃

[Psalms 55:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.24/)

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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:915` 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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