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title: Psalms 55:5 (JPS 1917) — My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen… · tree and pragmatics
description: My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Who acts: heart. Psalms 55:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:5 · JPS 1917

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My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** writhe, fall · **To what, where:** terrors

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This is Psalms 55:5 · 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 (heart), 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:896
# text = My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	writhe	writhe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	terrors	terror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **writhe** | present · do-support | My heart |  |  |  |  | within me | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | present · passive |  | the terrors of death |  |  |  | upon me | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |

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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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לִ֭בִּי יָחִ֣יל בְּקִרְבִּ֑י וְאֵימ֥וֹת מָ֝֗וֶת נָפְל֥וּ עָלָֽי׃

[Psalms 55:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.5/)

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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:896` 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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