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title: Psalms 119:10 (JPS 1917) — With my whole heart have I sought Thee; O let me not err from Thy co… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 119:10 · JPS 1917

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With my whole heart have I sought Thee; O let me not err from Thy commandments.

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**Who acts:** I, me, Thy · **What happens:** seek, let, not err, command · **To what, where:** Thee, me, commandments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 119:10 · 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, me, 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:2173
# text = With my whole heart have I sought Thee; O let me not err from Thy commandments.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	err	err	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | Thee |  |  |  | with my whole heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **err** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | Thy commandments |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **command** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «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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בְּכָל־לִבִּ֥י דְרַשְׁתִּ֑יךָ אַל־תַּ֝שְׁגֵּ֗נִי מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 119:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.10/)

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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:2173` 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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