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title: Psalms 86:15 (JPS 1917) — But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 86:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 86:15 · JPS 1917

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But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** God

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This is Psalms 86:15 · 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), 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:1528
# text = But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	plenteous	plenteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thou | a God |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | tree rules |

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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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וְאַתָּ֣ה אֲ֭דֹנָי אֵל־רַח֣וּם וְחַנּ֑וּן אֶ֥רֶךְ אַ֝פַּ֗יִם וְרַב־חֶ֥סֶד וֶאֱמֶֽת׃

[Psalms 86:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.15/)

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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:1528` 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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