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title: Psalms 141:5 (JPS 1917) — Let the righteous smite me in kindness, and correct me; oil so choic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the righteous smite me in kindness, and correct me; oil so choice let not my head refuse; for still is my prayer because of their wickedness. Who acts: you, righteous, head. Psalms 141:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:5 · JPS 1917

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Let the righteous smite me in kindness, and correct me; oil so choice let not my head refuse; for still is my prayer because of their wickedness.

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**Who acts:** you, righteous, head · **What happens:** let, smite, correct, not let, refuse, be · **To what, where:** righteous, me, kindness, head, oil, prayer

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This is Psalms 141:5 · 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 (you, righteous, head), 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:2571
# text = Let the righteous smite me in kindness, and correct me; oil so choice let not my head refuse; for still is my prayer because of their wickedness.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	choice	choice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
27	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the righteous |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smite** | infinitive | the righteous *not said here* | me |  | kindness |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive | the righteous *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | my head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **refuse** | infinitive | my head *not said here* | oil |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | my prayer |  |  | still | because men's wickedness | tree rules |

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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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יֶֽהֶלְמֵֽנִי־צַדִּ֨יק ׀ חֶ֡סֶד וְֽיוֹכִיחֵ֗נִי שֶׁ֣מֶן רֹ֭אשׁ אַל־יָנִ֣י רֹאשִׁ֑י כִּי־ע֥וֹד וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗י בְּרָעוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 141:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.5/)

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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:2571` 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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