--- title: Psalms 22:25 (JPS 1917) — For He hath not despised nor abhorred the lowliness of the poor; nei… · tree and pragmatics description: For He hath not despised nor abhorred the lowliness of the poor; neither hath He hid His face from him; but when he cried unto Him, He heard.' Who acts: LORD. 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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 (LORD), 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:332 # text = For He hath not despised nor abhorred the lowliness of the poor; neither hath He hid His face from him; but when he cried unto Him, He heard.' 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 despised despise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 7 cc _ _ 7 abhorred abhor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lowliness lowliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 17 cc _ _ 15 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hid hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 18 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 30 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **despise** | present · perfect | LORD | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **abhor** | participle | LORD *not said here* | the lowliness of the poor | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lowliness=Stimulus | | 3 | **hide** | present · perfect | LORD | LORD's face | | | | from Israel | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient from he=Beneficiary | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | LORD | | | | | unto Israel | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | past | LORD | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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} כִּ֤י לֹֽא־בָזָ֨ה וְלֹ֪א שִׁקַּ֡ץ עֱנ֬וּת עָנִ֗י וְלֹא־הִסְתִּ֣יר פָּנָ֣יו מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וּֽבְשַׁוְּע֖וֹ אֵלָ֣יו שָׁמֵֽעַ׃ [Psalms 22:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:332` 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 22:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.331/) - next →: [Psalms 22:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.333/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 22:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.25/)