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title: Psalms 143:12 (JPS 1917) — And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that har… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that harass my soul; for I am Thy servant. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 143:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 143:12 · JPS 1917

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And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that harass my soul; for I am Thy servant.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** cut off, destroy, harass, be · **To what, where:** enemies, mercy, hands, soul, servant

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This is Psalms 143:12 · 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, 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:2597
# text = And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that harass my soul; for I am Thy servant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	harass	harass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | mine enemies |  | Thy mercy |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector enemy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **destroy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **harass** | present |  | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | Thy servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וּֽבְחַסְדְּךָ֮ תַּצְמִ֪ית אֹ֫יְבָ֥י וְֽ֭הַאֲבַדְתָּ כָּל־צֹרֲרֵ֣י נַפְשִׁ֑י כִּ֝֗י אֲנִ֣י עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

[Psalms 143:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.143.12/)

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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:2597` 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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