--- title: Psalms 88:15 (JPS 1917) — LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? · tree and pragmatics description: LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? Who acts: Thou. Psalms 88:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1555/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/88/) / [88:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.15/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 88:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** cast off · **To what, where:** soul This is Psalms 88:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Thou), 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:1555 # text = LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? 1 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 castest cast VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cast off** | present | Thou | my soul | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Product | 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} לָמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּזְנַ֣ח נַפְשִׁ֑י תַּסְתִּ֖יר פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ [Psalms 88:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.15/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **LORD, why castest Thou off my soul?** 2. [Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1556/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1555` 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 88:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1554/) - next →: [Psalms 88:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1556/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 88:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.15/)