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title: Psalms 140:7 (JPS 1917) — I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto the voice of my supplications. Who acts: I, my. Psalms 140:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 140:7 · JPS 1917

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I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto the voice of my supplications.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** say, be, give, supplicate · **To what, where:** God, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 140:7 · 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, my), 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:2558
# text = I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto the voice of my supplications.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | my God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | ear |  |  |  | unto the voice of my supplications; LORD *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 4 | **supplicate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=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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אָמַ֣רְתִּי לַ֭יהוָה אֵ֣לִי אָ֑תָּה הַאֲזִ֥ינָה יְ֝הוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃

[Psalms 140:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.7/)

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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:2558` 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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