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title: Psalms 119:86 (JPS 1917) — All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me for nought; hel… · tree and pragmatics
description: All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me for nought; help Thou me. Who acts: commandments, Thou, Thy. Psalms 119:86 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:86 · JPS 1917

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All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me for nought; help Thou me.

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**Who acts:** commandments, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** be, persecute, help, command · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 119:86 · 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 (commandments, Thou, 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:2250
# text = All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me for nought; help Thou me.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	persecute	persecute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy commandments |  |  |  |  | faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **persecute** | present | commandments *= commandment* | me |  |  |  | for nought | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Patient for nought=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | Thou |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **command** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כָּל־מִצְוֺתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה שֶׁ֖קֶר רְדָפ֣וּנִי עָזְרֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 119:86: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.86/)

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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:2250` 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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