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title: Psalms 35:3 (JPS 1917) — Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me; say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.' Who acts: you, battle axe, I. Psalms 35:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:3 · JPS 1917

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Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me; say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'

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**Who acts:** you, battle axe, I · **What happens:** draw out, pursue, say, be · **To what, where:** spear, me, salvation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 35:3 · 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, battle axe, 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:532
# text = Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me; say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'
1	Draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the spear and the battle axe |  |  |  | against spear | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | present | the battle axe | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto my soul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | Thy salvation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְהָ֘רֵ֤ק חֲנִ֣ית וּ֭סְגֹר לִקְרַ֣את רֹדְפָ֑י אֱמֹ֥ר לְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י יְֽשֻׁעָתֵ֥ךְ אָֽנִי׃

[Psalms 35:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.3/)

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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:532` 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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