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title: Psalms 17:7 (JPS 1917) — Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand from assailants them that take refuge in Thee. Who acts: you. Psalms 17:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 17:7 · JPS 1917

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Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand from assailants them that take refuge in Thee.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, save, take · **To what, where:** mercies, assailants, refuge, Thee

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This is Psalms 17:7 · 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:202
# text = Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand from assailants them that take refuge in Thee.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	passing	passing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	great	great	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	savest	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	assailants	assailant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy mercies |  |  |  | passing *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mercy=Product |
| 2 | **save** | present |  | mercies *= mercy* |  | assailants |  | by Thy right hand | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from assailant=Source |
| 3 | **take** | present |  | 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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הַפְלֵ֣ה חֲ֭סָדֶיךָ מוֹשִׁ֣יעַ חוֹסִ֑ים מִ֝מִּתְקוֹמְמִ֗ים בִּֽימִינֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.7/)

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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:202` 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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