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title: Psalms 54:1 (JPS 1917) — Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: 'Doth not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: 'Doth not David hide himself with us?' O God, save me by Thy name, and right me by Thy might. Who acts: Ziphites, David, Thy. Psalms 54:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 54:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: 'Doth not David hide himself with us?' O God, save me by Thy name, and right me by Thy might.

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**Who acts:** Ziphites, David, Thy · **What happens:** come, say, not hide, save, right, name · **To what, where:** Saul, David, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 54:1 · 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 (Ziphites, David, Thy), 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:884
# text = Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: 'Doth not David hide himself with us?' O God, save me by Thy name, and right me by Thy might.
1	Maschil	Maschil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ziphites	Ziphite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	right	right	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=other, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Ziphites |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ziphites *not said here* |  | Saul |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to saul=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | David | David |  |  |  | with us | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | by Thy name; God *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **right** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | by Thy might | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ בִּנְגִינֹ֗ת מַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְדָוִֽד׃

[Psalms 54:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.54.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For the Leader; with string-music.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.883/)
2. **Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: 'Doth not David hide himself with us?' O God, save me by Thy name, and right me by Thy might.**

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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:884` 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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