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title: Psalms 141:9 (JPS 1917) — Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity. Who acts: you, eyes. Psalms 141:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:9 · JPS 1917

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Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

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**Who acts:** you, eyes · **What happens:** keep, lay · **To what, where:** me, snare

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This is Psalms 141:9 · 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, eyes), 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:2575
# text = Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gins	gin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me | the snare and the gins of the workers of iniquity |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary from snare=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lay** | present · perfect | eyes *= eye* | the snare and the gins of the workers of iniquity |  |  |  | for me | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for i=Beneficiary |

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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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שָׁמְרֵ֗נִי מִ֣ידֵי פַ֭ח יָ֣קְשׁוּ לִ֑י וּ֝מֹקְשׁ֗וֹת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

[Psalms 141:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.9/)

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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:2575` 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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