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title: Psalms 86:1 (JPS 1917) — Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy. · tree and pragmatics
description: Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 86:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 86:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** incline, answer, be · **To what, where:** ear, me

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This is Psalms 86:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, I), 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:1514
# text = Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.
1	Incline	incline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thine ear |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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תְּפִלָּ֗ה לְדָ֫וִ֥דהַטֵּֽה־יְהוָ֣ה אָזְנְךָ֣ עֲנֵ֑נִי כִּֽי־עָנִ֖י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָֽנִי׃

[Psalms 86:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Prayer of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1513/)
2. **Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.**

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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:1514` 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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