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title: Psalms 120:2 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. Who acts: you. Psalms 120:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 120:2 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** deliver, lie · **To what, where:** soul, lying lips

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This is Psalms 120:2 · 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:2344
# text = O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul |  | lying lips |  | from a deceitful tongue; LORD *vocative* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent soul=Theme from lip=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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יְֽהוָ֗ה הַצִּ֣ילָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשְּׂפַת־שֶׁ֑קֶר מִלָּשׁ֥וֹן רְמִיָּֽה׃

[Psalms 120:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.2/)

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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:2344` 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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