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title: Psalms 71:11 (JPS 1917) — Saying: 'God hath forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying: 'God hath forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.' Who acts: God, none. Psalms 71:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 71:11 · JPS 1917

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Saying: 'God hath forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.'

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**Who acts:** God, none · **What happens:** say, forsake, pursue, take, be, deliver · **To what, where:** strength · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 71:11 · 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 (God, none), 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:1182
# text = Saying: 'God hath forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.'
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **forsake** | present · perfect | God | strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pursue** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  |  | strength |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **be** | present | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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לֵ֭אמֹר אֱלֹהִ֣ים עֲזָב֑וֹ רִֽדְפ֥וּ וְ֝תִפְשׂ֗וּהוּ כִּי־אֵ֥ין מַצִּֽיל׃

[Psalms 71:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.11/)

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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:1182` 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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