--- title: Psalms 88:15 (JPS 1917) — Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? · tree and pragmatics description: Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? 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.1556/) [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 2 # Psalms 88:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** face This is Psalms 88:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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:1556 # text = Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 hidest hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 4 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Thou | Thy face | | | | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient from i=Beneficiary | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1555/) 2. **Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1556` 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 88:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1555/) - next →: [Psalms 88:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1557/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 88:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.15/)