---
title: Psalms of lament are prayers of sorrow or complaint, such as Psalm 1… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Psalms of lament are prayers of sorrow or complaint, such as Psalm 13, which asks «How long, O Lord?». Who acts: Psalms, Psalm. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Psalms and Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/) / 12

# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Psalms of lament are prayers of sorrow or complaint, such as Psalm 13, which asks «How long, O Lord?».

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Psalms, Psalm · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** prayers

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Psalms, Psalm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:12
# text = Psalms of lament are prayers of sorrow or complaint, such as Psalm 13, which asks «How long, O Lord?».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Psalms	psalm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
14	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
23	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Psalms of lament | prayers |  |  |  | of sorrow such Psalm or complaint | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Psalm |  |  |  |  | O *vocative*; long *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:12`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms and Proverbs, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/9/)
- next →: [Psalms and Proverbs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/13/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/)

