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title: Psalms 83:2 (JPS 1917) — O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still,… · tree and pragmatics
description: O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God. Who acts: Thou, Thy. Psalms 83:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 83:2 · JPS 1917

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O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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**Who acts:** Thou, Thy · **What happens:** not keep, not hold, not be, pacify · **To what, where:** silence, peace

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This is Psalms 83:2 · 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 (Thou, 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:1465
# text = O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
7	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | infinitive | Thou | silence |  |  |  | God *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | infinitive |  | Thy peace |  |  |  | God *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pacify** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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אֱלֹהִ֥ים אַל־דֳּמִי־לָ֑ךְ אַל־תֶּחֱרַ֖שׁ וְאַל־תִּשְׁקֹ֣ט אֵֽל׃

[Psalms 83:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.2/)

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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:1465` 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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