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title: Psalms 38:22 (JPS 1917) — Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me. · tree and pragmatics
description: Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me. Who acts: you. Psalms 38:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 38:22 · JPS 1917

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Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not forsake, not be · **To what, where:** me

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This is Psalms 38:22 · 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), 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:635
# text = Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.
1	Forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forsake** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from me; my God *vocative*; far *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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אַל־תַּֽעַזְבֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אַל־תִּרְחַ֥ק מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 38:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.22/)

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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:635` 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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