--- title: Psalms 88:9 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an ab… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Who acts: Thou, I, mine. 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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, I, mine), 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:1548 # text = Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 11 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 abomination abomination NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 29 forth forth ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present · perfect | Thou | mine acquaintance | | | | from me; far *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Goal | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou | a abomination | me | | | unto waves *= wave* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary abomination=Product | | 3 | **shut up** | present · passive | | I | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **come** | can | I | | | | | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **acquaint** | | mine | | | | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הִרְחַ֥קְתָּ מְיֻדָּעַ֗י מִ֫מֶּ֥נִּי שַׁתַּ֣נִי תוֹעֵב֣וֹת לָ֑מוֹ כָּ֝לֻ֗א וְלֹ֣א אֵצֵֽא׃ [Psalms 88:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1548` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 88:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1547/) - next →: [Psalms 88:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1549/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 88:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.9/)