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title: Psalms 71:17 (JPS 1917) — O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; and until now do I declare… · tree and pragmatics
description: O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; and until now do I declare Thy wondrous works. Who acts: Thou, I, Thy. Psalms 71:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 71:17 · JPS 1917

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O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; and until now do I declare Thy wondrous works.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, Thy · **What happens:** teach, declare, work · **To what, where:** me, youth, wondrous works

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This is Psalms 71:17 · 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 (Thou, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:1188
# text = O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; and until now do I declare Thy wondrous works.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	until	until	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Thou |  | me | my youth |  | God *vocative* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I | Thy wondrous works |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Attribute |
| 3 | **work** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים לִמַּדְתַּ֥נִי מִנְּעוּרָ֑י וְעַד־הֵ֝֗נָּה אַגִּ֥יד נִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 71:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.17/)

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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:1188` 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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