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title: Psalms 119:30 (JPS 1917) — I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set b… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me. Who acts: I, Thine. Psalms 119:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:30 · JPS 1917

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I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.

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**Who acts:** I, Thine · **What happens:** choose, set, ordain · **To what, where:** way, ordinances

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This is Psalms 119:30 · 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, Thine), 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:2193
# text = I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | the way of faithfulness |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present · perfect | I | Thine ordinances |  |  | before me |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ordinance=Theme before i=Destination |
| 3 | **ordain** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «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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דֶּֽרֶךְ־אֱמוּנָ֥ה בָחָ֑רְתִּי מִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ שִׁוִּֽיתִי׃

[Psalms 119:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.30/)

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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:2193` 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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