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title: Psalms 16:5 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintain… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot. Who acts: Thou, mine. Psalms 16:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 16:5 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot.

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**Who acts:** Thou, mine · **What happens:** maintain, inherit · **To what, where:** lot

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This is Psalms 16:5 · 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, mine), 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:188
# text = O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	dep	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	maintainest	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- 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 | **maintain** | present | Thou | my lot |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 2 | **inherit** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act 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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יְֽהוָ֗ה מְנָת־חֶלְקִ֥י וְכוֹסִ֑י אַ֝תָּ֗ה תּוֹמִ֥יךְ גּוֹרָלִֽי׃

[Psalms 16:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.5/)

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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:188` 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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