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title: Psalms 105:15 (JPS 1917) — 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.' · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.' Who acts: you. Psalms 105:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 105:15 · JPS 1917

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'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not touch, anoint · **To what, where:** anointed ones

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This is Psalms 105:15 · 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 (you), 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:1876
# text = 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mine anointed ones |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **anoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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אַֽל־תִּגְּע֥וּ בִמְשִׁיחָ֑י וְ֝לִנְבִיאַי אַל־תָּרֵֽעוּ׃

[Psalms 105:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.15/)

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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:1876` 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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