--- title: Psalms 10:1 (JPS 1917) — Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble? · tree and pragmatics description: Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble? Who acts: Thou. Psalms 10:1 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.118/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/10/) / [10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.1/) / JPS 2 # Psalms 10:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble? **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** Thyself This is Psalms 10:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Thou), 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:118 # text = Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 hidest hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 4 Thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Thou | Thyself | | | time | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient | 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} לָמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תַּעֲמֹ֣ד בְּרָח֑וֹק תַּ֝עְלִ֗ים לְעִתּ֥וֹת בַּצָּרָֽה׃ [Psalms 10:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.117/) 2. **Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:118` 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 10:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.117/) - next →: [Psalms 10:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.119/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.1/)