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title: Psalms 35:14 (JPS 1917) — I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed… · tree and pragmatics
description: I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother. Who acts: I, prayer, one. Psalms 35:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:14 · JPS 1917

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I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.

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**Who acts:** I, prayer, one · **What happens:** go about, be, bow down, mourn · **To what, where:** friend

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This is Psalms 35:14 · 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 (I, prayer, one), 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:543
# text = I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	NN	_	23	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mourneth	mourn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go about** | past | I |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | prayer | my friend or my brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bow down** | past | I |  |  |  |  | down, mournful *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mourn** | present | one |  |  |  |  | for bereavement's mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for mother=Attribute |

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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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כְּרֵֽעַ־כְּאָ֣ח לִ֭י הִתְהַלָּ֑כְתִּי כַּאֲבֶל־אֵ֝֗ם קֹדֵ֥ר שַׁחֽוֹתִי׃

[Psalms 35:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.14/)

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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:543` of Mova's parse database.

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