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title: Psalms 6:4 (JPS 1917) — My soul also is sore affrighted; and Thou, O LORD, how long? · tree and pragmatics
description: My soul also is sore affrighted; and Thou, O LORD, how long? Psalms 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 6:4 · JPS 1917

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My soul also is sore affrighted; and Thou, O LORD, how long?

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**What happens:** affright · **To what, where:** soul

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This is Psalms 6:4 · 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: 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:58
# text = My soul also is sore affrighted; and Thou, O LORD, how long?
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	affrighted	affright	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affright** | present · passive |  | My soul |  |  |  | sore *property* | 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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וְ֭נַפְשִׁי נִבְהֲלָ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וְאַתָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה עַד־מָתָֽי׃

[Psalms 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.4/)

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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:58` 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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