Psalms 119:144 · JPS 1917
Thy testimonies are righteous for ever; give me understanding, and I shall live.
Who acts: testimonies, I, Thy · What happens: be, give, live, testify · To what, where: understanding, me
This is Psalms 119:144 · 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 (testimonies, I, Thy), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 testimonies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | testimonies | testimony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 righteous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 righteous | cop |
| 4 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 righteous | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 righteous | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 righteous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thy testimonies | righteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | understanding | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient understanding=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | shall | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | testify | Thy | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
צֶ֖דֶק עֵדְוֺתֶ֥יךָ לְעוֹלָ֗ם הֲבִינֵ֥נִי וְאֶחְיֶֽה׃
Psalms 119:144: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:2309 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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