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title: Psalms 141:8 (JPS 1917) — For mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord; in Thee have I taken re… · tree and pragmatics
description: For mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord; in Thee have I taken refuge, O pour not out my soul. Who acts: eyes, I. Psalms 141:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:8 · JPS 1917

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For mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord; in Thee have I taken refuge, O pour not out my soul.

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**Who acts:** eyes, I · **What happens:** be, take, not pour out · **To what, where:** refuge, Thee, soul

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This is Psalms 141:8 · 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 (eyes, 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:2574
# text = For mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord; in Thee have I taken refuge, O pour not out my soul.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
2	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obl	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | present | mine eyes |  |  |  |  | unto Thee; GOD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | I | refuge |  | Thee |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in thou=Location |
| 3 | **not** **pour out** | infinitive |  | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |

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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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כִּ֤י אֵלֶ֨יךָ ׀ יְהֹוִ֣ה אֲדֹנָ֣י עֵינָ֑י בְּכָ֥ה חָ֝סִ֗יתִי אַל־תְּעַ֥ר נַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Psalms 141:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.8/)

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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:2574` 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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