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title: Psalms 61:3 (JPS 1917) — From the end of the earth will I call unto Thee, when my heart faint… · tree and pragmatics
description: From the end of the earth will I call unto Thee, when my heart fainteth; lead me to a rock that is too high for me. Who acts: I, heart, rock. Psalms 61:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 61:3 · JPS 1917

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From the end of the earth will I call unto Thee, when my heart fainteth; lead me to a rock that is too high for me.

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**Who acts:** I, heart, rock · **What happens:** call, faint, lead, be · **To what, where:** end, me, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 61:3 · 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, heart, rock), 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:995
# text = From the end of the earth will I call unto Thee, when my heart fainteth; lead me to a rock that is too high for me.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fainteth	faint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | future | I |  |  |  | from the end of the earth | unto Thee | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from end=Source |
| 2 | **faint** | present | my heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lead** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  | a rock |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to rock=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | a rock |  |  |  |  | for me; high *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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מִקְצֵ֤ה הָאָ֨רֶץ ׀ אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֶ֭קְרָא בַּעֲטֹ֣ף לִבִּ֑י בְּצוּר־יָר֖וּם מִמֶּ֣נִּי תַנְחֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 61:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.61.3/)

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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:995` 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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