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title: Psalms 74:21 (JPS 1917) — O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and nee… · tree and pragmatics
description: O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name. Who acts: you, oppressed, poor, Thy. Psalms 74:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 74:21 · JPS 1917

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O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name.

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**Who acts:** you, oppressed, poor, Thy · **What happens:** let, not turn back, praise, name · **To what, where:** confusion, name

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This is Psalms 74:21 · 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 (you, oppressed, poor, Thy), 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:1274
# text = O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	oppressed	oppress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **turn back** | infinitive | the oppressed |  |  | confusion |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **praise** | infinitive | the poor | Thy name |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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אַל־יָשֹׁ֣ב דַּ֣ךְ נִכְלָ֑ם עָנִ֥י וְ֝אֶבְי֗וֹן יְֽהַלְל֥וּ שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 74:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.21/)

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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:1274` 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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