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title: Psalms 22:22 (JPS 1917) — Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me. Who acts: you, Thou. Psalms 22:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 22:22 · JPS 1917

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Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me.

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**Who acts:** you, Thou · **What happens:** save, answer · **To what, where:** me, mouth, horns

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This is Psalms 22:22 · 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, 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:329
# text = Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me.
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
9	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | the lion's mouth |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from mouth=Source |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Thou |  | me | the horns of the wild oxen |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |

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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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ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵנִי מִפִּ֣י אַרְיֵ֑ה וּמִקַּרְנֵ֖י רֵמִ֣ים עֲנִיתָֽנִי׃

[Psalms 22:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.22/)

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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:329` 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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