--- title: Psalms 17:13 (JPS 1917) — Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, by Thy sword; Who acts: you. 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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:208 # text = Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, by Thy sword; 1 Arise arise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 confront confront VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 cast cast VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 deliver deliver VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wicked wicked NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **confront** | infinitive | you *not said here* | LORD | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **cast down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | LORD | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | | 4 | **deliver** | infinitive | | my soul | | the wicked | | by Thy sword | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent soul=Theme from wicked=Initial\_Location | 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} קוּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה קַדְּמָ֣ה פָ֭נָיו הַכְרִיעֵ֑הוּ פַּלְּטָ֥ה נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י מֵרָשָׁ֥ע חַרְבֶּֽךָ׃ [Psalms 17:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:208` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 17:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.207/) - next →: [Psalms 17:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.209/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 17:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.13/)