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title: Psalms 31:18 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world. Who acts: you, me, I, wicked. Psalms 31:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 31:18 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world.

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**Who acts:** you, me, I, wicked · **What happens:** let, not be, call, be, put · **To what, where:** bones, nether world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 31:18 · 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, wicked), 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:464
# text = O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | me |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | upon Thee | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | the wicked |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | infinitive · passive |  | bones *= bone* |  | the nether world |  | to silence | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in world=Destination |

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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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יְֽהוָ֗ה אַל־אֵ֭בוֹשָׁה כִּ֣י קְרָאתִ֑יךָ יֵבֹ֥שׁוּ רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יִדְּמ֥וּ לִשְׁאֽוֹל׃

[Psalms 31:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.18/)

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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:464` 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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