--- title: Psalms 118:25 (JPS 1917) — We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now! · tree and pragmatics description: We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now! Who acts: We. Psalms 118:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2157/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/118/) / [118:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.25/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 118:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now! **Who acts:** We · **What happens:** beseech, save · **To what, where:** Thee This is Psalms 118:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (We), 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:2157 # text = We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now! 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 beseech beseech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beseech** | present | We | Thee | | | | LORD *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **save** | infinitive | We *not said here* | | | | now | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} אָנָּ֣א יְ֭הוָה הוֹשִׁ֘יעָ֥ה נָּ֑א אָֽנָּ֥א יְ֝הוָ֗ה הַצְלִ֘יחָ֥ה נָּֽא׃ [Psalms 118:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.25/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now!** 2. [We beseech Thee, O LORD, make us now to prosper!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2158/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2157` 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 118:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2156/) - next →: [Psalms 118:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2158/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 118:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.25/)