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title: Psalms 88:3 (JPS 1917) — Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry. Who acts: you, prayer, my. Psalms 88:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 88:3 · JPS 1917

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Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry.

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**Who acts:** you, prayer, my · **What happens:** let, come, incline, pray, cry · **To what, where:** prayer, Thee, ear

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This is Psalms 88:3 · 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, prayer, my), 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:1542
# text = Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry.
1	Let	let	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	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my prayer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | my prayer *not said here* |  |  | Thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before thou=Location |
| 3 | **incline** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine ear |  |  |  | unto my cry | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 4 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **cry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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תָּב֣וֹא לְ֭פָנֶיךָ תְּפִלָּתִ֑י הַטֵּֽה־אָ֝זְנְךָ֗ לְרִנָּתִֽי׃

[Psalms 88:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.3/)

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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:1542` 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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