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title: Psalms 17:6 (JPS 1917) — As for me, I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; incline… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for me, I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me, hear my speech. Who acts: I, Thou, my. Psalms 17:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 17:6 · JPS 1917

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As for me, I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me, hear my speech.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou, my · **What happens:** call, answer, incline, hear, speak · **To what, where:** me, ear, speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 17:6 · 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, Thou, my), 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:201
# text = As for me, I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me, hear my speech.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	incline	incline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as me; upon Thee; God *vocative* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | Thou |  | me |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **incline** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Thine ear |  |  |  | unto me | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my speech |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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אֲנִֽי־קְרָאתִ֣יךָ כִֽי־תַעֲנֵ֣נִי אֵ֑ל הַֽט־אָזְנְךָ֥ לִ֝י֗ שְׁמַ֣ע אִמְרָתִֽי׃

[Psalms 17:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.6/)

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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:201` 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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