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title: Psalms 139:7 (JPS 1917) — Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 139:7 · JPS 1917

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Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, flee · **To what, where:** spirit, presence

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This is Psalms 139:7 · 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:2531
# text = Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?
1	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  | Thy spirit |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from spirit=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flee** | shall | I |  |  | Thy presence |  | whither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial\_Location |

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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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אָ֭נָ֥ה אֵלֵ֣ךְ מֵרוּחֶ֑ךָ וְ֝אָ֗נָה מִפָּנֶ֥יךָ אֶבְרָֽח׃

[Psalms 139:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.7/)

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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:2531` 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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