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title: Psalms 43:1 (JPS 1917) — Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly natio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. Who acts: Thou, my. Psalms 43:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 43:1 · JPS 1917

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Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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**Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** be, plead, deliver, cause · **To what, where:** judge, cause, me

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This is Psalms 43:1 · 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 (Thou, my), 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:704
# text = Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plead	plead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- 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 a** | infinitive | Thou | my judge |  |  |  | God *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | my cause |  |  |  | against a ungodly nation | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | from the deceitful man | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from man=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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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שָׁפְטֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ וְרִ֘יבָ֤ה רִיבִ֗י מִגּ֥וֹי לֹא־חָסִ֑יד מֵ֤אִישׁ־מִרְמָ֖ה וְעַוְלָ֣ה תְפַלְּטֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 43:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.43.1/)

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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:704` 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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