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title: Psalms 102:25 (JPS 1917) — I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou who… · tree and pragmatics
description: I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations. Who acts: I, years. Psalms 102:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 102:25 · JPS 1917

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I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations.

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**Who acts:** I, years · **What happens:** say, not take away, endure · **To what, where:** me, midst, generations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 102:25 · 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 (I, years), 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:1795
# text = I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	vocative	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	endure	endure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **take away** | infinitive |  | me |  | the midst of my days |  | my God *vocative*; Thou *vocative*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **endure** | present | years |  |  |  | throughout all generations |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout generation=Location |

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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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אֹמַ֗ר אֵלִ֗י אַֽל־תַּ֭עֲלֵנִי בַּחֲצִ֣י יָמָ֑י בְּד֖וֹר דּוֹרִ֣ים שְׁנוֹתֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 102:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.25/)

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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:1795` 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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