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title: Psalms 42:6 (JPS 1917) — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? · tree and pragmatics
description: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Who acts: thou. Psalms 42:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 42:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** cast down, moan · **To what, where:** thou

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This is Psalms 42:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thou), 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:694
# text = Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RP	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	moanest	moan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **cast down** | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | my soul *vocative*; down *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **moan** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | within me | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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מַה־תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ וַתֶּהֱמִ֪י עָ֫לָ֥י הוֹחִ֣ילִי לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים כִּי־ע֥וֹד אוֹדֶ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּע֥וֹת פָּנָֽיו׃

[Psalms 42:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?**
2. [Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.695/)

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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:694` 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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