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title: Psalms 51:9 (JPS 1917) — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 51:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 51:9 · JPS 1917

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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** purge, be, wash · **To what, where:** me

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This is Psalms 51:9 · 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 (you, 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:850
# text = Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
1	Purge	purge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hyssop	hyssop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purge** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with hyssop | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent i=Source |
| 2 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | than snow; white *property* | tree rules |

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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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תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃

[Psalms 51:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.9/)

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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:850` 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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