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title: Psalms 141:2 (JPS 1917) — Let my prayer be set forth as incense before Thee, the lifting up of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my prayer be set forth as incense before Thee, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Who acts: prayer, my. Psalms 141:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:2 · JPS 1917

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Let my prayer be set forth as incense before Thee, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** prayer, my · **What happens:** let, set, pray · **To what, where:** Thee

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This is Psalms 141:2 · 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 (prayer, 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:2568
# text = Let my prayer be set forth as incense before Thee, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lifting	lifting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | my prayer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive · passive | my prayer *not said here* |  |  | Thee |  | as incense; forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before thou=Destination |
| 3 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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תִּכּ֤וֹן תְּפִלָּתִ֣י קְטֹ֣רֶת לְפָנֶ֑יךָ מַֽשְׂאַ֥ת כַּ֝פַּ֗י מִנְחַת־עָֽרֶב׃

[Psalms 141:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.2/)

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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:2568` 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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