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title: Psalms 119:37 (JPS 1917) — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in Thy ways. · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in Thy ways. Who acts: you. Psalms 119:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:37 · JPS 1917

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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in Thy ways.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn away, behold, quicken · **To what, where:** eyes, vanity, me, ways

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This is Psalms 119:37 · 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), 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:2200
# text = Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in Thy ways.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	quicken	quicken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | imperative | you *not said here* | mine eyes |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **behold** | gerund | you *not said here* | vanity |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vanity=Stimulus |
| 3 | **quicken** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | Thy ways |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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הַעֲבֵ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי מֵרְא֣וֹת שָׁ֑וְא בִּדְרָכֶ֥ךָ חַיֵּֽנִי׃

[Psalms 119:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.37/)

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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:2200` 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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