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title: Psalms 39:14 (JPS 1917) — Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.' Who acts: you, I. Psalms 39:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 39:14 · JPS 1917

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Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** look away, take, go, not be · **To what, where:** comfort

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This is Psalms 39:14 · 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, 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:652
# text = Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from me; away *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | may | I | comfort |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | more *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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הָשַׁ֣ע מִמֶּ֣נִּי וְאַבְלִ֑יגָה בְּטֶ֖רֶם אֵלֵ֣ךְ וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 39:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.14/)

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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:652` 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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