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title: Psalms 25:20 (JPS 1917) — O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in Thee. Who acts: you, me, I. Psalms 25:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 25:20 · JPS 1917

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O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in Thee.

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**Who acts:** you, me, I · **What happens:** keep, deliver, let, not be, take · **To what, where:** soul, me, refuge, Thee

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This is Psalms 25:20 · 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 (you, me, I), 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:378
# text = O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in Thee.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **deliver** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | present · perfect | I | refuge |  | Thee |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in thou=Location |

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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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שָׁמְרָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי וְהַצִּילֵ֑נִי אַל־אֵ֝ב֗וֹשׁ כִּֽי־חָסִ֥יתִי בָֽךְ׃

[Psalms 25:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.20/)

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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:378` 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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