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title: Psalms 59:16 (JPS 1917) — They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have… · tree and pragmatics
description: They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill. Who acts: nations. Psalms 59:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 59:16 · JPS 1917

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They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill.

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**Who acts:** nations · **What happens:** wander up, devour, tarry, not have · **To what, where:** fill

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This is Psalms 59:16 · 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 (nations), 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:974
# text = They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tarry	tarry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wander up** | present | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **devour** | to-infinitive | nations *= nation* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tarry** | present | nations *= nation* *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nations *= nation* | nations's fill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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הֵ֭מָּה יְנִיע֣וּן לֶאֱכֹ֑ל אִם־לֹ֥א יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּ וַיָּלִֽינוּ׃

[Psalms 59:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.16/)

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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:974` 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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