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title: Psalms 59:9 (JPS 1917) — But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; Thou shalt have all the natio… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; Thou shalt have all the nations in derision. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 59:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 59:9 · JPS 1917

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But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; Thou shalt have all the nations in derision.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** laugh, have · **To what, where:** nations, derision

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This is Psalms 59:9 · 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), 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:967
# text = But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; Thou shalt have all the nations in derision.
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	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **laugh** | shall | Thou |  |  |  |  | at nations *= nation*; LORD *vocative* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | shall | Thou | all nations |  | derision |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=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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וְאַתָּ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׂחַק־לָ֑מוֹ תִּ֝לְעַ֗ג לְכָל־גּוֹיִֽם׃

[Psalms 59:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.9/)

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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:967` 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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