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title: Psalms 38:2 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath. · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath. Who acts: you, Thine. Psalms 38:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 38:2 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath.

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**Who acts:** you, Thine · **What happens:** not rebuke, chasten, anger · **To what, where:** me, anger, wrath

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This is Psalms 38:2 · 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, Thine), 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:615
# text = O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	chasten	chasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rebuke** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | Thine anger |  | LORD *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **chasten** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | Thy wrath |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **anger** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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יְֽהוָ֗ה אַל־בְּקֶצְפְּךָ֥ תוֹכִיחֵ֑נִי וּֽבַחֲמָתְךָ֥ תְיַסְּרֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 38:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.2/)

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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:615` 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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