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title: Psalms 59:17 (JPS 1917) — But as for me, I will sing of Thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud o… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for me, I will sing of Thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy mercy in the morning; for Thou hast been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress. Who acts: I, Thou, my. Psalms 59:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 59:17 · JPS 1917

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But as for me, I will sing of Thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy mercy in the morning; for Thou hast been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou, my · **What happens:** sing, be, distress · **To what, where:** high tower

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This is Psalms 59:17 · 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 (I, Thou, my), 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:975
# text = But as for me, I will sing of Thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy mercy in the morning; for Thou hast been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
28	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I |  |  |  |  | as me; of Thy strength | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I |  |  |  | morning | of Thy mercy; aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | Thou | my high tower and a refuge in the day of my distress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **distress** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom distress «feeling 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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וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ אָשִׁ֣יר עֻזֶּךָ֮ וַאֲרַנֵּ֥ן לַבֹּ֗קֶר חַ֫סְדֶּ֥ךָ כִּֽי־הָיִ֣יתָ מִשְׂגָּ֣ב לִ֑י וּ֝מָנ֗וֹס בְּי֣וֹם צַר־לִֽי׃

[Psalms 59:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.17/)

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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:975` 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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