--- title: Psalms 119:12 (JPS 1917) — Blessed art Thou, O LORD; teach me Thy statutes. · tree and pragmatics description: Blessed art Thou, O LORD; teach me Thy statutes. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 119:12 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.2175/) [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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/119/) / [119:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.12/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 119:12 · JPS 1917 Blessed art Thou, O LORD; teach me Thy statutes. **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** be, teach · **To what, where:** statutes, me This is Psalms 119:12 · 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), 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:2175 # text = Blessed art Thou, O LORD; teach me Thy statutes. 1 Blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=other, form=decl | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Thou | | | | | LORD *vocative*; bless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | | Thy statutes | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient statute=Topic | 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} בָּר֖וּךְ אַתָּ֥ה יְהוָ֗ה לַמְּדֵ֥נִי חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃ [Psalms 119:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2175` 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 119:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2174/) - next →: [Psalms 119:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2176/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 119:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.12/)