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title: Psalms 119:87 (JPS 1917) — They had almost consumed me upon earth; but as for me, I forsook not… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had almost consumed me upon earth; but as for me, I forsook not Thy precepts. Who acts: commandments, I. Psalms 119:87 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:87 · JPS 1917

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They had almost consumed me upon earth; but as for me, I forsook not Thy precepts.

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**Who acts:** commandments, I · **What happens:** consume, not forsake · **To what, where:** me, precepts

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This is Psalms 119:87 · 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, 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:2251
# text = They had almost consumed me upon earth; but as for me, I forsook not Thy precepts.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | past · perfect | commandments *= commandment* | me |  |  |  | upon earth; almost *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **forsake** | past | I | Thy precepts |  |  |  | as me | 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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כִּ֭מְעַט כִּלּ֣וּנִי בָאָ֑רֶץ וַ֝אֲנִ֗י לֹא־עָזַ֥בְתִּי פִקֻּודֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 119:87: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.87/)

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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:2251` 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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