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title: Psalms 10:17 (JPS 1917) — LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct the… · tree and pragmatics
description: LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend; Who acts: Thou, ear. Psalms 10:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 10:17 · JPS 1917

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LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;

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**Who acts:** Thou, ear · **What happens:** hear, direct, cause, attend · **To what, where:** desire, heart, ear

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This is Psalms 10:17 · 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 (Thou, ear), 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:134
# text = LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;
1	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
21	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hear** | present · perfect | Thou | the desire of the humble |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer desire=Stimulus |
| 2 | **direct** | future | Thou | nations's heart |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cause** | future | Thou | Thine ear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attend** | to-infinitive | Thine ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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תַּאֲוַ֬ת עֲנָוִ֣ים שָׁמַ֣עְתָּ יְהוָ֑ה תָּכִ֥ין לִ֝בָּ֗ם תַּקְשִׁ֥יב אָזְנֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 10:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.17/)

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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:134` 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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