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title: Psalms 109:1 (JPS 1917) — O God of my praise, keep not silence; · tree and pragmatics
description: O God of my praise, keep not silence; Who acts: you, my. Psalms 109:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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O God of my praise, keep not silence;

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** not keep, praise · **To what, where:** silence

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This is Psalms 109:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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, 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:2015
# text = O God of my praise, keep not silence;
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | silence |  |  |  | God of my praise *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 2 | **praise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «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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לַ֭מְנַצֵּחַ לְדָוִ֣ד מִזְמ֑וֹראֱלֹהֵ֥י תְ֝הִלָּתִ֗י אַֽל־תֶּחֱרַֽשׁ׃

[Psalms 109:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For the Leader.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2013/)
2. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2014/)
3. **O God of my praise, keep not silence;**

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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:2015` 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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