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title: Psalms 22:2 (JPS 1917) — My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help… · tree and pragmatics
description: My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry? Who acts: Thou, my. Psalms 22:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 22:2 · JPS 1917

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My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?

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**Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** forsake, be, help, word, cry · **To what, where:** me, help, words, cry

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This is Psalms 22:2 · 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 (Thou, 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:309
# text = My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  |  |  | My God *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Thou *not said here* |  |  | my help at the words of my cry |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** |  | my |  |  | the words of my cry |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | my cry |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 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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אֵלִ֣י אֵ֭לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי רָח֥וֹק מִֽ֝ישׁוּעָתִ֗י דִּבְרֵ֥י שַׁאֲגָתִֽי׃

[Psalms 22:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.2/)

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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:309` 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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