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title: Psalms 89:3 (JPS 1917) — For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness. Who acts: I, Thou. Psalms 89:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 89:3 · JPS 1917

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For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** say, build, establish · **To what, where:** mercy, faithfulness, very heavens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 89:3 · 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, 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:1563
# text = For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
17	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | present · passive |  | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for ever=Asset |
| 3 | **establish** | present · do-support | Thou | Thy faithfulness |  | the very heavens |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faithfulness=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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כִּֽי־אָמַ֗רְתִּי ע֭וֹלָם חֶ֣סֶד יִבָּנֶ֑ה שָׁמַ֓יִם ׀ תָּכִ֖ן אֱמוּנָתְךָ֣ בָהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 89:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.3/)

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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:1563` 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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