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title: Psalms 119:22 (JPS 1917) — Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies. Who acts: you, I, Thy. Psalms 119:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:22 · JPS 1917

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Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Thy · **What happens:** take away, keep, testify · **To what, where:** reproach, testimonies

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This is Psalms 119:22 · 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 (you, I, 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:2185
# text = Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	testimonies	testimony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | reproach and contempt |  |  |  | from me; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | I | Thy testimonies |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testimony=Theme |
| 3 | **testify** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: 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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גַּ֣ל מֵֽ֭עָלַי חֶרְפָּ֣ה וָב֑וּז כִּ֖י עֵדֹתֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃

[Psalms 119:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.22/)

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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:2185` 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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