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title: Psalms 28:2 (JPS 1917) — Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lif… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy holy Sanctuary. Who acts: you, I, my. Psalms 28:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 28:2 · JPS 1917

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Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy holy Sanctuary.

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**Who acts:** you, I, my · **What happens:** hear, cry, lift up, supplicate · **To what, where:** voice, hands

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This is Psalms 28:2 · 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, I, 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:412
# text = Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy holy Sanctuary.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Sanctuary	Sanctuary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the voice of my supplications |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | I |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lift up** | present | I | my hands |  |  |  | toward Thy holy Sanctuary | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme toward sanctuary=Destination |
| 4 | **supplicate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication 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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שְׁמַ֤ע ק֣וֹל תַּ֭חֲנוּנַי בְּשַׁוְּעִ֣י אֵלֶ֑יךָ בְּנָשְׂאִ֥י יָ֝דַ֗י אֶל־דְּבִ֥יר קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃

[Psalms 28:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.28.2/)

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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:412` 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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