--- title: Psalms 119:56 (JPS 1917) — This I have had, that I have kept Thy precepts. · tree and pragmatics description: This I have had, that I have kept Thy precepts. Who acts: I. Psalms 119:56 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.2219/) [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/) / [119:56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.56/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 119:56 · JPS 1917 This I have had, that I have kept Thy precepts. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, keep · **To what, where:** This, precepts This is Psalms 119:56 · 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), 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:2219 # text = This I have had, that I have kept Thy precepts. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 precepts precept NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · perfect | I | This | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | I | Thy precepts | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme | 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} זֹ֥את הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֑י כִּ֖י פִקֻּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃ [Psalms 119:56: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.56/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2219` 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 119:55 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2218/) - next →: [Psalms 119:57 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2220/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 119:56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.56/)