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title: Psalms 142:7 (JPS 1917) — Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me. Who acts: you, persecutors, my. Psalms 142:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 142:7 · JPS 1917

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Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me.

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**Who acts:** you, persecutors, my · **What happens:** attend, bring, deliver, be, cry · **To what, where:** I, me, persecutors

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This is Psalms 142:7 · 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, persecutors, 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:2583
# text = Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me.
1	Attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	persecutors	persecutor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto my cry | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive |  | me |  | my persecutors |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from persecutor=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | persecutors *= persecutor* |  |  |  |  | for me; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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הַקְשִׁ֤יבָה ׀ אֶֽל־רִנָּתִי֮ כִּֽי־דַלּ֪וֹתִ֫י מְאֹ֥ד הַצִּילֵ֥נִי מֵרֹדְפַ֑י כִּ֖י אָמְצ֣וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 142:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.142.7/)

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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:2583` 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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