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title: Psalms 39:5 (JPS 1917) — 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am. Who acts: you, me, fire, I. Psalms 39:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 39:5 · JPS 1917

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'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.

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**Who acts:** you, me, fire, I · **What happens:** make, know, be, let, measure · **To what, where:** me, end, days · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 39:5 · 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, me, fire, I), 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:642
# text = 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	lived	lived	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | mine end and the measure of my days |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | fire |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | lived *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **measure** |  |  | my days |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הוֹדִ֘יעֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ קִצִּ֗י וּמִדַּ֣ת יָמַ֣י מַה־הִ֑יא אֵ֝דְעָ֗ה מֶה־חָדֵ֥ל אָֽנִי׃

[Psalms 39:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.5/)

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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:642` 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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