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title: Psalms 89:35 (JPS 1917) — My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of… · tree and pragmatics
description: My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of My lips. Who acts: I, My. Psalms 89:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 89:35 · JPS 1917

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My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of My lips.

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**Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** not profane, alter, go out, covenant · **To what, where:** covenant, that, lips

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This is Psalms 89:35 · 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, My), 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:1596
# text = My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of My lips.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	profane	profane	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	alter	alter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **not** **profane** | future | I | My covenant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **alter** | infinitive | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **go out** | present · passive |  | My lips |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication 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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לֹא־אֲחַלֵּ֥ל בְּרִיתִ֑י וּמוֹצָ֥א שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י לֹ֣א אֲשַׁנֶּֽה׃

[Psalms 89:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.35/)

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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:1596` 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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