--- title: Psalms 22:2 — My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry? Who acts: Thou, my. Psalms 22:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/22/) / 22:2 # Psalms 22:2 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** forsake, be, help, word, cry · **To what, where:** me, help, words, cry This is Psalms 22:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Thou, my — and what happens in the verse to me, help, words, cry, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. אֵלִ֣י אֵ֭לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי רָח֥וֹק מִֽ֝ישׁוּעָתִ֗י דִּבְרֵ֥י שַׁאֲגָתִֽי׃ [My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.309/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:278 # text = אֵלִ֣י אֵ֭לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי רָח֥וֹק מִֽ֝ישׁוּעָתִ֗י דִּבְרֵ֥י שַׁאֲגָתִֽי׃ # verse = PSA.22.2 1-2 אֵלִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 אֵל אֵל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 dislocated _ Gloss=my.God|Ref=PSA_22:2!1|MId=o190220020011|Strong=0410 2 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_22:2!1|MId=o190220020012|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 3-4 אֵ֭לִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אֵ֭ל אֵל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 dislocated _ Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_22:2!2|MId=o190220020021|Strong=0410 4 ִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_22:2!2|MId=o190220020022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 5-6 לָמָ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לָ לָמָה ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=|Ref=PSA_22:2!3|MId=o190220020031|Strong=3807a 6 מָ֣ה מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 7 obl _ Gloss=why?|Ref=PSA_22:2!3|MId=o190220020032|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 7-8 עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 עֲזַבְתָּ֑ עָזַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 9 parataxis _ Gloss=have|Ref=PSA_22:2!4|MId=o190220020041|Strong=5800|Frame=A0:190220020011;A1:190220020042;|Type=qatal 8 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ Gloss=you.forsaken.me|Ref=PSA_22:2!4|MId=o190220020042|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 9 רָח֥וֹק רָחֹוק ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[are].far|Ref=PSA_22:2!5|MId=o190220020051|Strong=7350|Type=adjective 10-12 מִֽ֝ישׁוּעָתִ֗י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 מִֽ֝ מִן ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=PSA_22:2!6|MId=o190220020061|Strong=4480 11 ישׁוּעָת יְשׁוּעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=deliverance|Ref=PSA_22:2!6|MId=o190220020062|Strong=3444 12 ִ֗י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_22:2!6|MId=o190220020063|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13 דִּבְרֵ֥י דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 conj _ Gloss=the.words|Ref=PSA_22:2!7|MId=o190220020071|Strong=1697 14-15 שַׁאֲגָתִֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 שַׁאֲגָת שְׁאָגָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.cry.of.distress|Ref=PSA_22:2!8|MId=o190220020081|Strong=7581 15 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_22:2!8|MId=o190220020082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=PSA_22:2!8 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עֲזַבְתָּ *have* | qatal · qal | אֵל *my God* | נִי *you forsaken me* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} אֵלִי אֵלִי מְטוּל מַה שְׁבַקְתַּנִי רָחִיק מִן פּוּרְקָנִי מִלֵי אַכְלְיוּתִי: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.309/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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