--- title: Psalms 119:36 (JPS 1917) — Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. · tree and pragmatics description: Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Who acts: you, Thy. Psalms 119:36 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.2199/) [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/) / [119:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.36/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 119:36 · JPS 1917 Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. **Who acts:** you, Thy · **What happens:** incline, testify · **To what, where:** heart This is Psalms 119:36 · 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, 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:2199 # text = Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. 1 Incline incline VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 testimonies testimony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 covetousness covetousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **incline** | imperative | you *not said here* | my heart | | | | unto Thy testimonies and covetousness | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **testify** | | Thy | | | | | | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} הַט־לִ֭בִּי אֶל־עֵדְוֺתֶ֗יךָ וְאַ֣ל אֶל־בָּֽצַע׃ [Psalms 119:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.36/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2199` 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 119:35 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2198/) - next →: [Psalms 119:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2200/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 119:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.36/)