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title: Psalms 35:13 (JPS 1917) — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I aff… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom. Who acts: witnesses, clothing, I, prayer. Psalms 35:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:13 · JPS 1917

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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.

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**Who acts:** witnesses, clothing, I, prayer, my, mine · **What happens:** be, afflict, return, pray, bosom · **To what, where:** sackcloth, soul, own bosom

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This is Psalms 35:13 · 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 (witnesses, clothing, I, prayer), 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:542
# text = But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | witnesses *= witness* |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | my clothing | sackcloth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **afflict** | past | I | my soul |  |  |  | as me; with fasting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |
| 4 | **return** | may | my prayer |  |  | mine own bosom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ בַּחֲלוֹתָ֡ם לְב֬וּשִׁי שָׂ֗ק עִנֵּ֣יתִי בַצּ֣וֹם נַפְשִׁ֑י וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗י עַל־חֵיקִ֥י תָשֽׁוּב׃

[Psalms 35:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.13/)

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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:542` 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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