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title: Psalms 143:1 (JPS 1917) — A Psalm of David. · tree and pragmatics
description: A Psalm of David. Psalms 143:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 143:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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A Psalm of David.

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This is Psalms 143:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:2585
# text = A Psalm of David.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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מִזְמ֗וֹר לְדָ֫וִ֥דיְהוָ֤ה ׀ שְׁמַ֬ע תְּפִלָּתִ֗י הַאֲזִ֥ינָה אֶל־תַּחֲנוּנַ֑י בֶּאֱמֻנָתְךָ֥ עֲ֝נֵ֗נִי בְּצִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 143:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.143.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **A Psalm of David.**
2. [O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2586/)

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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:2585` 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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