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title: Psalms 38:16 (JPS 1917) — For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God. · tree and pragmatics
description: For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God. Who acts: I, Thou. Psalms 38:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 38:16 · JPS 1917

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For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** hope, answer · **To what, where:** Thee

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This is Psalms 38:16 · 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, Thou), 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:629
# text = For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope; Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **hope** | present · do-support | I |  |  | Thee |  | LORD *vocative* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | Thou |  |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּֽי־לְךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה הוֹחָ֑לְתִּי אַתָּ֥ה תַ֝עֲנֶ֗ה אֲדֹנָ֥י אֱלֹהָֽי׃

[Psalms 38:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.16/)

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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:629` 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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