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title: Psalms 73:13 (JPS 1917) — Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in inno… · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency; Who acts: I. Psalms 73:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 73:13 · JPS 1917

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Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** cleanse, wash · **To what, where:** heart, vain, hands, innocency

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This is Psalms 73:13 · 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), 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:1232
# text = Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	innocency	innocency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleanse** | present · perfect | I | my heart |  | vain |  | surely *property* | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** | past | I *not said here* | my hands |  | innocency |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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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אַךְ־רִ֭יק זִכִּ֣יתִי לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃

[Psalms 73:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/)

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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:1232` 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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