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title: Psalms 42:3 (JPS 1917) — My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come an… · tree and pragmatics
description: My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come and appear before God?' Who acts: soul, I. Psalms 42:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 42:3 · JPS 1917

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My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come and appear before God?'

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**Who acts:** soul, I · **What happens:** thirst, live, come, appear

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This is Psalms 42:3 · 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 (soul, 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:691
# text = My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come and appear before God?'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thirsteth	thirst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
13	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thirst** | present | My soul |  |  |  |  | for God and the living God | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for god=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | before God |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before god=Location |

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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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צָמְאָ֬ה נַפְשִׁ֨י ׀ לֵאלֹהִים֮ לְאֵ֪ל חָ֥י מָתַ֥י אָב֑וֹא וְ֝אֵרָאֶ֗ה פְּנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Psalms 42:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.3/)

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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:691` 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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