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title: Psalms 119:38 (JPS 1917) — Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of Thee. Who acts: you, servant, Thy. Psalms 119:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:38 · JPS 1917

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Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of Thee.

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**Who acts:** you, servant, Thy · **What happens:** confirm, pertain, word, fear · **To what, where:** word, Thee

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This is Psalms 119:38 · 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, servant, 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:2201
# text = Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of Thee.
1	Confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	word	word	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	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pertaineth	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy word |  |  |  | unto Thy servant | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Topic |
| 2 | **pertain** | present | Thy servant |  |  |  |  | unto the fear of Thee | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | Thee |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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הָקֵ֣ם לְ֭עַבְדְּךָ אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לְיִרְאָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 119:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.38/)

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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:2201` 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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