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title: Psalms 86:16 (JPS 1917) — O turn unto me, and be gracious unto me; give Thy strength unto Thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: O turn unto me, and be gracious unto me; give Thy strength unto Thy servant, and save the son of Thy handmaid. Who acts: you. Psalms 86:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 86:16 · JPS 1917

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O turn unto me, and be gracious unto me; give Thy strength unto Thy servant, and save the son of Thy handmaid.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn, be, give, save · **To what, where:** strength, son

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This is Psalms 86:16 · 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), 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:1529
# text = O turn unto me, and be gracious unto me; give Thy strength unto Thy servant, and save the son of Thy handmaid.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
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	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | Thy strength |  |  |  | unto Thy servant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive |  | the son of Thy handmaid |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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פְּנֵ֥ה אֵלַ֗י וְחָ֫נֵּ֥נִי תְּנָֽה־עֻזְּךָ֥ לְעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝הוֹשִׁ֗יעָה לְבֶן־אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 86:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.16/)

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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:1529` 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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