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title: Psalms 141:1 (JPS 1917) — LORD, I have called Thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice… · tree and pragmatics
description: LORD, I have called Thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto Thee. Who acts: I. Psalms 141:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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LORD, I have called Thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto Thee.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** call, make, give · **To what, where:** Thee, haste, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 141:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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:2567
# text = LORD, I have called Thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto Thee.
1	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | Thee |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive |  | haste |  |  |  | unto me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | ear |  |  |  | unto my voice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | I |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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מִזְמ֗וֹר לְדָ֫וִ֥דיְהוָ֣ה קְ֭רָאתִיךָ ח֣וּשָׁה לִּ֑י הַאֲזִ֥ינָה ק֝וֹלִ֗י בְּקָרְאִי־לָֽךְ׃

[Psalms 141:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2566/)
2. **LORD, I have called Thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto Thee.**

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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:2567` 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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