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title: Psalms 31:4 (JPS 1917) — For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me and guide me. Who acts: Thou, Thy. Psalms 31:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 31:4 · JPS 1917

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For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

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**Who acts:** Thou, Thy · **What happens:** be, lead, guide, name · **To what, where:** rock, me

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This is Psalms 31:4 · 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 (Thou, Thy), 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:450
# text = For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	guide	guide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thou | my rock and my fortress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | for Thy name's sake; therefore *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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כִּֽי־סַלְעִ֣י וּמְצוּדָתִ֣י אָ֑תָּה וּלְמַ֥עַן שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ תַּֽנְחֵ֥נִי וּֽתְנַהֲלֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 31:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.4/)

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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:450` 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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