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title: Psalms 40:14 (JPS 1917) — Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me. · tree and pragmatics
description: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me. Who acts: you. Psalms 40:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 40:14 · JPS 1917

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Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, deliver, make, help · **To what, where:** me, haste

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This is Psalms 40:14 · 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), 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:668
# text = Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative*; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | haste *not said here* | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |

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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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רְצֵ֣ה יְ֭הוָה לְהַצִּילֵ֑נִי יְ֝הוָ֗ה לְעֶזְרָ֥תִי חֽוּשָׁה׃

[Psalms 40:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.14/)

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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:668` 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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