--- title: Psalms 70:1 (JPS 1917) — O God, to deliver me, O LORD, to help me, make haste. · tree and pragmatics description: O God, to deliver me, O LORD, to help me, make haste. Who acts: you. Psalms 70:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/PSA.1167/) [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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/70/) / [70:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.1/) / JPS 3 # Psalms 70:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 O God, to deliver me, O LORD, to help me, make haste. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** deliver, help, make · **To what, where:** me, haste This is Psalms 70:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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), 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:1167 # text = O God, to deliver me, O LORD, to help me, make haste. 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 vocative _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 O o INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 vocative _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 15 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 3 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | haste | | | | God *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | 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} לַ֝מְנַצֵּ֗חַ לְדָוִ֥ד לְהַזְכִּֽיר׃ [Psalms 70:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [For the Leader.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1165/) 2. [A Psalm of David; to make memorial.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1166/) 3. **O God, to deliver me, O LORD, to help me, make haste.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1167` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 70:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1166/) - next →: [Psalms 70:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1168/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 70:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.1/)