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title: Psalms 71:1 (JPS 1917) — In Thee, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed. · tree and pragmatics
description: In Thee, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed. Who acts: I, me. Psalms 71:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 71:1 · JPS 1917

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In Thee, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed.

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**Who acts:** I, me · **What happens:** take, let, not be · **To what, where:** refuge, Thee, me

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This is Psalms 71:1 · 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, me), 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:1172
# text = In Thee, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, indirect=0, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | refuge |  | Thee |  | LORD *vocative* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in thou=Location |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |

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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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בְּךָֽ־יְהוָ֥ה חָסִ֑יתִי אַל־אֵב֥וֹשָׁה לְעוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 71:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.1/)

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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:1172` 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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