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title: Psalms 69:16 (JPS 1917) — Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Who acts: you, waterflood, deep, pit. Psalms 69:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 69:16 · JPS 1917

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Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

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**Who acts:** you, waterflood, deep, pit · **What happens:** not let, overwhelm, let, swallow up, shut · **To what, where:** waterflood, me, deep, pit, mouth

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This is Psalms 69:16 · 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 (you, waterflood, deep, pit), 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:1143
# text = Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	waterflood	waterflood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	overwhelm	overwhelm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the waterflood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overwhelm** | infinitive | the waterflood *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the deep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swallow up** | infinitive | the deep *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the pit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shut** | infinitive | the pit *not said here* | reproach's mouth |  |  |  | upon me | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=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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אַל־תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי ׀ שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל־תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר־עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ׃

[Psalms 69:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.16/)

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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:1143` 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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