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title: Psalms 86:2 (JPS 1917) — Keep my soul, for I am godly; O Thou my God, save Thy servant that t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep my soul, for I am godly; O Thou my God, save Thy servant that trusteth in Thee. Who acts: you, I, servant. Psalms 86:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 86:2 · JPS 1917

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Keep my soul, for I am godly; O Thou my God, save Thy servant that trusteth in Thee.

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**Who acts:** you, I, servant · **What happens:** keep, be, save, trust · **To what, where:** soul, servant, Thee

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This is Psalms 86:2 · 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 (you, I, servant), 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:1515
# text = Keep my soul, for I am godly; O Thou my God, save Thy servant that trusteth in Thee.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	godly	godly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	vocative	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	trusteth	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | godly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive |  | Thy servant |  |  |  | Thou *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 4 | **trust** | present | Thy servant |  |  | Thee |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁי֮ כִּֽי־חָסִ֪יד אָ֥נִי הוֹשַׁ֣ע עַ֭בְדְּךָ אַתָּ֣ה אֱלֹהַ֑י הַבּוֹטֵ֥חַ אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 86:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.2/)

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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:1515` 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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