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title: Psalms 66:20 (JPS 1917) — Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. Who acts: God, my. Psalms 66:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 66:20 · JPS 1917

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Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

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**Who acts:** God, my · **What happens:** bless, not turn away, pray · **To what, where:** God, prayer

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This is Psalms 66:20 · 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 (God, 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:1079
# text = Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.
1	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	aux:pass	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **turn away** | present · perfect | God | my prayer nor God's mercy |  |  |  | from me | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme from i=Source |
| 3 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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בָּר֥וּךְ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הֵסִ֘יר תְּפִלָּתִ֥י וְ֝חַסְדּ֗וֹ מֵאִתִּֽי׃

[Psalms 66:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.20/)

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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:1079` 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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