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title: Psalms 16:1 (JPS 1917) — Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 16:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 16:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** keep, take · **To what, where:** me, refuge, Thee

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This is Psalms 16:1 · 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 (you, 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:184
# text = Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
11	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | God *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | I | refuge |  | Thee |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in thou=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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מִכְתָּ֥ם לְדָוִ֑דשָֽׁמְרֵ֥נִי אֵ֝֗ל כִּֽי־חָסִ֥יתִי בָֽךְ׃

[Psalms 16:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Michtam of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.183/)
2. **Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee.**

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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:184` 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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