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title: Psalms 58:7 (JPS 1917) — Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD. Who acts: you. Psalms 58:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 58:7 · JPS 1917

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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** break, break out · **To what, where:** teeth, mouth, cheek teeth

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This is Psalms 58:7 · 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:952
# text = Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | voice's teeth |  | voice's mouth |  | God *vocative* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **break out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the cheek teeth of the young lions |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient |

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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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אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרָס־שִׁנֵּ֥ימוֹ בְּפִ֑ימוֹ מַלְתְּע֥וֹת כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים נְתֹ֣ץ ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 58:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.7/)

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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:952` 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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