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title: Psalms 7:3 (JPS 1917) — Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. Who acts: LORD, none. Psalms 7:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 7:3 · JPS 1917

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Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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**Who acts:** LORD, none · **What happens:** tear, rend, be, deliver · **To what, where:** soul, pieces

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This is Psalms 7:3 · 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 (LORD, none), 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:68
# text = Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
1	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rending	rend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | infinitive | LORD | my soul |  |  |  | like a lion | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location soul=Theme |
| 2 | **rend** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | soul |  | pieces |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | present | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

[Psalms 7:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.3/)

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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:68` 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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