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title: Psalms 119:77 (JPS 1917) — Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is my delight. Who acts: you, tender mercies, I, law. Psalms 119:77 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:77 · JPS 1917

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Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is my delight.

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**Who acts:** you, tender mercies, I, law · **What happens:** let, come, live, be · **To what, where:** delight

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This is Psalms 119:77 · 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, tender mercies, I, law), 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:2240
# text = Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is my delight.
1	Let	let	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	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Thy tender mercies |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Thy law | my delight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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יְבֹא֣וּנִי רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ וְאֶֽחְיֶ֑ה כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ שַֽׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

[Psalms 119:77: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.77/)

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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:2240` 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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