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title: Psalms 56:8 (JPS 1917) — Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples, O God. Who acts: you. Psalms 56:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 56:8 · JPS 1917

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Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples, O God.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cast out, bring down · **To what, where:** thoughts, peoples, anger

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This is Psalms 56:8 · 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), 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:924
# text = Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples, O God.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast out** | imperative | you *not said here* | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  | because iniquity; God *vocative* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 2 | **bring down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the peoples | anger |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=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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עַל־אָ֥וֶן פַּלֶּט־לָ֑מוֹ בְּ֝אַ֗ף עַמִּ֤ים ׀ הוֹרֵ֬ד אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Psalms 56:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.8/)

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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:924` 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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