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title: Psalms 57:2 (JPS 1917) — Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my soul taken refuge; yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge, until calamities be overpast. Who acts: you, soul, I, calamities. Psalms 57:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 57:2 · JPS 1917

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Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my soul taken refuge; yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge, until calamities be overpast.

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**Who acts:** you, soul, I, calamities · **What happens:** be, take, shadow · **To what, where:** refuge, Thee, shadow, wings

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This is Psalms 57:2 · 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, soul, I, calamities), 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:933
# text = Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my soul taken refuge; yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge, until calamities be overpast.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
23	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
34	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	calamities	calamity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	overpast	overpast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; God *vocative*; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto me; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect | my soul | refuge |  | Thee |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in thou=Location |
| 4 | **take** | future | I | refuge |  | the shadow of Thy wings |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in shadow=Location |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | calamities |  |  |  |  | overpast *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shadow** |  |  | Thy wings |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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חָנֵּ֤נִי אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ חָנֵּ֗נִי כִּ֥י בְךָ֮ חָסָ֪יָה נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י וּבְצֵֽל־כְּנָפֶ֥יךָ אֶחְסֶ֑ה עַ֝֗ד יַעֲבֹ֥ר הַוּֽוֹת׃

[Psalms 57:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.57.2/)

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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:933` 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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