--- title: Psalms 118:28 (JPS 1917) — Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto Thee; Thou art my God,… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto Thee; Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee. Who acts: I. Psalms 118:28 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.2161/) [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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/118/) / [118:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.28/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 118:28 · JPS 1917 Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto Thee; Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, give, exalt · **To what, where:** God, thanks, Thee This is Psalms 118:28 · 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), 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:2161 # text = Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto Thee; Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 10 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 15 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 exalt exalt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 22 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | my God and my God | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | future | I | thanks | | | | unto Thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | my God | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **exalt** | future | I | Thee | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | 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} אֵלִ֣י אַתָּ֣ה וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אֲרוֹמְמֶֽךָּ׃ [Psalms 118:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2161` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 118:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2160/) - next →: [Psalms 118:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2162/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 118:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.28/)