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title: Psalms 116:4 (JPS 1917) — But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, del… · tree and pragmatics
description: But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, deliver my soul.' Who acts: I. Psalms 116:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 116:4 · JPS 1917

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But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, deliver my soul.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** call, beseech, deliver, name · **To what, where:** thee, soul, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 116:4 · 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), 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:2115
# text = But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, deliver my soul.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon the name of the LORD | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beseech** | present | I | thee |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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וּבְשֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֶקְרָ֑א אָנָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה מַלְּטָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Psalms 116:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.4/)

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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:2115` 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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