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title: Psalms 27:9 (JPS 1917) — Hide not Thy face from me; put not Thy servant away in anger; Thou h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hide not Thy face from me; put not Thy servant away in anger; Thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. Who acts: you, Thou, my. Psalms 27:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 27:9 · JPS 1917

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Hide not Thy face from me; put not Thy servant away in anger; Thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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**Who acts:** you, Thou, my · **What happens:** not hide, not put, be, not cast off, forsake, salve · **To what, where:** face, servant, anger, help, me

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This is Psalms 27:9 · 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, 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:404
# text = Hide not Thy face from me; put not Thy servant away in anger; Thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	vocative	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy face |  |  |  | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient from i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **put** | infinitive |  | Thy servant |  | anger |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme in anger=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | Thou | my help |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **cast off** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 5 | **forsake** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | God of my salvation *vocative* | tree rules |
| 6 | **salve** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֬ר פָּנֶ֨יךָ ׀ מִמֶּנִּי֮ אַֽל־תַּט־בְּאַ֗ף עַ֫בְדֶּ֥ךָ עֶזְרָתִ֥י הָיִ֑יתָ אַֽל־תִּטְּשֵׁ֥נִי וְאַל־תַּֽ֝עַזְבֵ֗נִי אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׁעִֽי׃

[Psalms 27:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.9/)

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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:404` of Mova's parse database.

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