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title: Psalms 86:11 (JPS 1917) — Teach me, O LORD, Thy way, that I may walk in Thy truth; make one my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teach me, O LORD, Thy way, that I may walk in Thy truth; make one my heart to fear Thy name. Who acts: you, I, Thy. Psalms 86:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 86:11 · JPS 1917

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Teach me, O LORD, Thy way, that I may walk in Thy truth; make one my heart to fear Thy name.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Thy · **What happens:** teach, walk, make, fear, name · **To what, where:** way, me, truth, heart, name

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This is Psalms 86:11 · 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 (you, 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:1524
# text = Teach me, O LORD, Thy way, that I may walk in Thy truth; make one my heart to fear Thy name.
1	Teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	xcomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy way | me |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | may | I |  |  | Thy truth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in truth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | my heart |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |
| 4 | **fear** | to-infinitive |  | Thy name |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 5 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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ה֘וֹרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ דַּרְכֶּ֗ךָ אֲהַלֵּ֥ךְ בַּאֲמִתֶּ֑ךָ יַחֵ֥ד לְ֝בָבִ֗י לְיִרְאָ֥ה שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 86:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.11/)

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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:1524` 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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