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title: Psalms 58:5 (JPS 1917) — Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear; Who acts: venom, speakers, deaf asp. Psalms 58:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 58:5 · JPS 1917

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Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

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**Who acts:** venom, speakers, deaf asp · **What happens:** be, stop · **To what, where:** ear

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This is Psalms 58:5 · 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 (venom, speakers, deaf asp), 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:950
# text = Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	asp	asp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stoppeth	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | speakers's venom |  |  |  |  | like the venom and the deaf asp; of a serpent | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | speakers *= speaker* |  |  |  |  | like the deaf asp | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | present | the deaf asp | asp's ear |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ear=Eventuality |

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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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חֲמַת־לָ֗מוֹ כִּדְמ֥וּת חֲמַת־נָחָ֑שׁ כְּמוֹ־פֶ֥תֶן חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ יַאְטֵ֥ם אָזְנֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 58:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.5/)

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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:950` 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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