--- title: Psalms 4:2 (JPS 1917) — Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness, Thou who didst set… · tree and pragmatics description: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness, Thou who didst set me free when I was in distress; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer. Who acts: you, I, my. 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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, 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:32 # text = Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness, Thou who didst set me free when I was in distress; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer. 1 Answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 O o INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 appos _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 23 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 distress distress NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | | God of my righteousness *vocative* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | | 2 | **call** | present | I | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **set** | past · do-support | | me | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | | 4 | **is** | past | I | | | distress | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto me; gracious *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my prayer | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | | 7 | **pray** | | my | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} בְּקָרְאִ֡י עֲנֵ֤נִי ׀ אֱלֹ֘הֵ֤י צִדְקִ֗י בַּ֭צָּר הִרְחַ֣בְתָּ לִּ֑י חָ֝נֵּ֗נִי וּשְׁמַ֥ע תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃ [Psalms 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.4.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:32` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 4:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.31/) - next →: [Psalms 4:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.33/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 4:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.4.2/)