--- title: Psalms 39:13 (JPS 1917) — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence a… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Who acts: you, I, my. 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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, I, 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:651 # text = Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 1 Hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 17 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 advcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sojourner sojourner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | my prayer | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear | | | | unto my cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 3 | **not** **keep** | infinitive | | silence | | my tears | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme at tear=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | a stranger | | | | with Thee | tree rules | | 5 | **pray** | | my | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **cry** | | my | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} שִֽׁמְעָ֥ה־תְפִלָּתִ֨י ׀ יְהוָ֡ה וְשַׁוְעָתִ֨י ׀ הַאֲזִינָה֮ אֶֽל־דִּמְעָתִ֗י אַֽל־תֶּ֫חֱרַ֥שׁ כִּ֤י גֵ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י עִמָּ֑ךְ תּ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב כְּכָל־אֲבוֹתָֽי׃ [Psalms 39:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:651` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 39:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.650/) - next →: [Psalms 39:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.652/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 39:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.13/)