--- title: Psalms 17:3 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast tried my heart, Thou hast visited it in the night; Thou ha… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou hast tried my heart, Thou hast visited it in the night; Thou hast tested me, and Thou findest not that I had a thought which should not pass my mouth. Who acts: Thou, I, thought. Psalms 17:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.198/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/17/) / [17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.3/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 17:3 · JPS 1917 Thou hast tried my heart, Thou hast visited it in the night; Thou hast tested me, and Thou findest not that I had a thought which should not pass my mouth. **Who acts:** Thou, I, thought · **What happens:** try, visit, test, not find, have, not pass · **To what, where:** heart, me, thought, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Psalms 17:3 · 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 (Thou, I, thought), 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:198 # text = Thou hast tried my heart, Thou hast visited it in the night; Thou hast tested me, and Thou findest not that I had a thought which should not pass my mouth. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 visited visit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 16 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 findest find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present · perfect | Thou | my heart | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | | 2 | **visit** | present · perfect | Thou | heart | | | night | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 3 | **test** | present · perfect | Thou | me | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **not** **find** | present | Thou | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | I | a thought | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | | 6 | **not** **pass** | should | a thought | my mouth | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory | 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} בָּ֘חַ֤נְתָּ לִבִּ֨י ׀ פָּ֘קַ֤דְתָּ לַּ֗יְלָה צְרַפְתַּ֥נִי בַל־תִּמְצָ֑א זַ֝מֹּתִ֗י בַּל־יַעֲבָר־פִּֽי׃ [Psalms 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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