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title: Psalms 119:23 (JPS 1917) — Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth medita… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes. Who acts: princes, servant. Psalms 119:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:23 · JPS 1917

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Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.

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**Who acts:** princes, servant · **What happens:** sit, talk, meditate · **To what, where:** statutes

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This is Psalms 119:23 · 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 (princes, servant), 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:2186
# text = Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	meditate	meditate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | princes |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | present | princes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meditate** | present · do-support | thy servant |  |  | Thy statutes |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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גַּ֤ם יָֽשְׁב֣וּ שָׂ֭רִים בִּ֣י נִדְבָּ֑רוּ עַ֝בְדְּךָ֗ יָשִׂ֥יחַ בְּחֻקֶּֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 119:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.23/)

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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:2186` 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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