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title: Psalms 70:5 (JPS 1917) — But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; Thou art my help… · tree and pragmatics
description: But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, tarry not. Who acts: I. Psalms 70:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 70:5 · JPS 1917

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But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, tarry not.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, make, not tarry · **To what, where:** haste, help

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This is Psalms 70:5 · 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 (I), 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:1171
# text = But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, tarry not.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | haste |  |  |  | unto me; God *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | my help and my deliverer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **tarry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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יָ֘שִׂ֤ישׂוּ וְיִשְׂמְח֨וּ ׀ בְּךָ֗ כָּֽל־מְבַ֫קְשֶׁ֥יךָ וְיֹאמְר֣וּ תָ֭מִיד יִגְדַּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֹ֝הֲבֵ֗י יְשׁוּעָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 70:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.5/)

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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:1171` 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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