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title: Psalms 38:12 (JPS 1917) — My friends and my companions stand aloof from my plague; and my kins… · tree and pragmatics
description: My friends and my companions stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off. Who acts: friends, kinsmen, my. Psalms 38:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 38:12 · JPS 1917

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My friends and my companions stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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**Who acts:** friends, kinsmen, my · **What happens:** stand, plague · **To what, where:** plague

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This is Psalms 38:12 · 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 (friends, kinsmen, my), 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:625
# text = My friends and my companions stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	aloof	aloof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	afar	afar	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	off	off	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **stand** | present | My friends and my companions |  |  | my plague |  | aloof *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | my kinsmen |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plague** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom plague «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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אֹֽהֲבַ֨י ׀ וְרֵעַ֗י מִנֶּ֣גֶד נִגְעִ֣י יַעֲמֹ֑דוּ וּ֝קְרוֹבַ֗י מֵרָחֹ֥ק עָמָֽדוּ׃

[Psalms 38:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.12/)

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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:625` 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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