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title: Psalms 138:3 (JPS 1917) — In the day that I called, Thou didst answer me; Thou didst encourage… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the day that I called, Thou didst answer me; Thou didst encourage me in my soul with strength. Who acts: I, Thou. Psalms 138:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 138:3 · JPS 1917

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In the day that I called, Thou didst answer me; Thou didst encourage me in my soul with strength.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** call, answer, encourage · **To what, where:** day, me, soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 138:3 · 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, Thou), 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:2517
# text = In the day that I called, Thou didst answer me; Thou didst encourage me in my soul with strength.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	didst	do	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	encourage	encourage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | I | the day |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Thou |  | me |  | day |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **encourage** | do-support | Thou | me |  | my soul |  | with strength | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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בְּי֣וֹם קָ֭רָֽאתִי וַֽתַּעֲנֵ֑נִי תַּרְהִבֵ֖נִי בְנַפְשִׁ֣י עֹֽז׃

[Psalms 138:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.3/)

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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:2517` 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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