--- title: Psalms 44:24 (JPS 1917) — Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? · tree and pragmatics description: Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Who acts: you, Thou. Psalms 44:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.735/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/44/) / [44:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.24/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 44:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? **Who acts:** you, Thou · **What happens:** awake, sleep This is Psalms 44:24 · 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 (you, 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:735 # text = Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? 1 Awake awake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 sleepest sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 5 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 O o INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | present | Thou | | | | | Lord *vocative* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} ע֤וּרָה ׀ לָ֖מָּה תִישַׁ֥ן ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י הָ֝קִ֗יצָה אַל־תִּזְנַ֥ח לָנֶֽצַח׃ [Psalms 44:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.24/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord?** 2. [Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.736/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:735` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 44:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.734/) - next →: [Psalms 44:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.736/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 44:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.24/)