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title: Psalms 140:8 (JPS 1917) — O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my h… · tree and pragmatics
description: O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my head in the day of battle, Who acts: strength, my. Psalms 140:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 140:8 · JPS 1917

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O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my head in the day of battle,

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**Who acts:** strength, my · **What happens:** screen, salve · **To what, where:** head

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This is Psalms 140:8 · 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 (strength, 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:2559
# text = O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my head in the day of battle,
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	screened	screen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **screen** | present · perfect | the strength of my salvation | my head |  |  | day |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **salve** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom salvation «act 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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יְהֹוִ֣ה אֲ֭דֹנָי עֹ֣ז יְשׁוּעָתִ֑י סַכֹּ֥תָה לְ֝רֹאשִׁ֗י בְּי֣וֹם נָֽשֶׁק׃

[Psalms 140:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.8/)

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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:2559` 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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