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title: Psalms 62:2 (JPS 1917) — Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salvation. Who acts: soul, salvation, my. Psalms 62:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 62:2 · JPS 1917

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Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salvation.

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**Who acts:** soul, salvation, my · **What happens:** wait, come, salve · **To what, where:** stillness

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This is Psalms 62:2 · 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 (soul, salvation, my), 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:1006
# text = Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salvation.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
13	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · do-support | my soul |  |  | stillness |  | for God | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stillness=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | my salvation |  |  |  |  | from soul | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **salve** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אַ֣ךְ אֶל־אֱ֭לֹהִים דּֽוּמִיָּ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י מִ֝מֶּ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּעָתִֽי׃

[Psalms 62:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.2/)

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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:1006` 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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