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title: Psalms 109:24 (JPS 1917) — My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no f… · tree and pragmatics
description: My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness. Who acts: knees, flesh. Psalms 109:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:24 · JPS 1917

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My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.

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**Who acts:** knees, flesh · **What happens:** totter, be, have · **To what, where:** fasting, fatness

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This is Psalms 109:24 · 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 (knees, flesh), 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:2038
# text = My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	totter	totter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	fatness	fatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **totter** | present | My knees |  |  | fasting |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fasting=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | my flesh |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | my flesh *not said here* | no fatness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatness=Patient |

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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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בִּ֭רְכַּי כָּשְׁל֣וּ מִצּ֑וֹם וּ֝בְשָׂרִ֗י כָּחַ֥שׁ מִשָּֽׁמֶן׃

[Psalms 109:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.24/)

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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:2038` 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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