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title: Psalms 103:18 (JPS 1917) — To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His precept… · tree and pragmatics
description: To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His precepts to do them. Who acts: LORD. Psalms 103:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 103:18 · JPS 1917

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To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His precepts to do them.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** keep, remember, do, covenant · **To what, where:** covenant, precepts

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This is Psalms 103:18 · 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 (LORD), 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:1818
# text = To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His precepts to do them.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	such	such	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  | LORD's covenant |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | present |  | LORD's precepts |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | precepts *= precept* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | 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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לְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י בְרִית֑וֹ וּלְזֹכְרֵ֥י פִ֝קֻּדָ֗יו לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃

[Psalms 103:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.18/)

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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:1818` 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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