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title: Psalms 77:2 (JPS 1917) — I will lift up my voice unto God, and cry; I will lift up my voice u… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will lift up my voice unto God, and cry; I will lift up my voice unto God, that He may give ear unto me. Who acts: I, God. Psalms 77:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 77:2 · JPS 1917

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I will lift up my voice unto God, and cry; I will lift up my voice unto God, that He may give ear unto me.

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**Who acts:** I, God · **What happens:** lift up, cry, give · **To what, where:** voice, ear

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This is Psalms 77:2 · 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, God), 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:1305
# text = I will lift up my voice unto God, and cry; I will lift up my voice unto God, that He may give ear unto me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **lift up** | future | I | my voice |  |  |  | unto God | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lift up** | future | I | my voice |  |  |  | unto God | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | may | God | ear |  |  |  | unto me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |

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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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קוֹלִ֣י אֶל־אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְאֶצְעָ֑קָה קוֹלִ֥י אֶל־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים וְהַאֲזִ֥ין אֵלָֽי׃

[Psalms 77:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.2/)

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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:1305` 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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