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title: Psalms 43:2 (JPS 1917) — For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off? · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off? Who acts: Thou. Psalms 43:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 43:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off?

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** be, cast off · **To what, where:** God, me

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This is Psalms 43:2 · 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:705
# text = For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	hast	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thou | the God |  |  |  | of my strength | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast off** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |

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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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כִּֽי־אַתָּ֤ה ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י מָֽעוּזִּי֮ לָמָ֪ה זְנַ֫חְתָּ֥נִי לָֽמָּה־קֹדֵ֥ר אֶתְהַלֵּ֗ךְ בְּלַ֣חַץ אוֹיֵֽב׃

[Psalms 43:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.43.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off?**
2. [Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.706/)

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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:705` 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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