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title: Psalms 22:20 (JPS 1917) — But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help me. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 22:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 22:20 · JPS 1917

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But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help me.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** not be, hasten, help · **To what, where:** me

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This is Psalms 22:20 · 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), 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:327
# text = But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help me.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
13	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |

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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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וְאַתָּ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אַל־תִּרְחָ֑ק אֱ֝יָלוּתִ֗י לְעֶזְרָ֥תִי חֽוּשָׁה׃

[Psalms 22:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.20/)

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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:327` 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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