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title: Psalms 43:2 (JPS 1917) — Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy? · tree and pragmatics
description: Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy? Who acts: I. 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 2 of 2

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Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, mourn, oppress · **To what, where:** oppression, enemy

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This is Psalms 43:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (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:706
# text = Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mourn** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the oppression of the enemy |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **oppress** |  |  | the enemy |  |  |  |  | nom oppression «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.705/)
2. **Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?**

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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:706` 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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