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title: Psalms 13:3 (JPS 1917) — How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart by day? Who acts: I. Psalms 13:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 13:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart by day?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, have · **To what, where:** counsel, soul, sorrow, heart

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This is Psalms 13:3 · 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 (I), 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:159
# text = How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart by day?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | counsel |  | my soul |  | long *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Value in soul=Location |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* | sorrow |  | my heart | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient |

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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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עַד־אָ֨נָה אָשִׁ֪ית עֵצ֡וֹת בְּנַפְשִׁ֗י יָג֣וֹן בִּלְבָבִ֣י יוֹמָ֑ם עַד־אָ֓נָה ׀ יָר֖וּם אֹיְבִ֣י עָלָֽי׃

[Psalms 13:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.13.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart by day?**
2. [How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.160/)

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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:159` 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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