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title: Psalms 119:9 (JPS 1917) — By taking heed thereto according to Thy word. · tree and pragmatics
description: By taking heed thereto according to Thy word. Who acts: Thy. Psalms 119:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.

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**Who acts:** Thy · **What happens:** take, accord, word · **To what, where:** heed

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This is Psalms 119:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Thy), 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:2172
# text = By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
3	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|VerbForm=Ger	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | heed |  |  |  | accord Thy word | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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בַּמֶּ֣ה יְזַכֶּה־נַּ֭עַר אֶת־אָרְח֑וֹ לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 119:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wherewithal shall a young man keep his way pure?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2171/)
2. **By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.**

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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:2172` 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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