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title: Psalms 35:17 (JPS 1917) — Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions. · tree and pragmatics
description: Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions. Who acts: you, witnesses. Psalms 35:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 35:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

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**Who acts:** you, witnesses · **What happens:** rescue, destroy · **To what, where:** soul, destructions

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This is Psalms 35:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, witnesses), 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:547
# text = Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.
1	Rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	destructions	destruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **rescue** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul |  | witnesses's destructions |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme from destruction=Source |
| 2 | **destroy** |  | witnesses *= witness* |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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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אֲדֹנָי֮ כַּמָּ֪ה תִּ֫רְאֶ֥ה הָשִׁ֣יבָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑ם מִ֝כְּפִירִ֗ים יְחִידָתִֽי׃

[Psalms 35:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.546/)
2. **Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.**

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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:547` 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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