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title: Psalms 143:1 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfu… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness. Who acts: you, my. 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 2 of 2

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O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** hear, give, answer, pray, supplicate · **To what, where:** prayer, ear, supplications, me, faithfulness

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This is Psalms 143:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: who acts (you, 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:2586
# text = O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | my prayer |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear | my supplications |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to supplication=Recipient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me | Thy faithfulness |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **supplicate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: 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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2585/)
2. **O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.**

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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:2586` 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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