--- title: Psalms 119:89 (JPS 1917) — For ever, O LORD, Thy word standeth fast in heaven. · tree and pragmatics description: For ever, O LORD, Thy word standeth fast in heaven. Who acts: word, Thy. Psalms 119:89 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.2253/) [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/) / [119:89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.89/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 119:89 · JPS 1917 For ever, O LORD, Thy word standeth fast in heaven. **Who acts:** word, Thy · **What happens:** stand, word · **To what, where:** heaven This is Psalms 119:89 · 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 (word, 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:2253 # text = For ever, O LORD, Thy word standeth fast in heaven. 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 ever ever ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 standeth stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | Thy word | | | heaven | | LORD *vocative*; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heaven=Location | | 2 | **word** | | Thy | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לְעוֹלָ֥ם יְהוָ֑ה דְּ֝בָרְךָ֗ נִצָּ֥ב בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ [Psalms 119:89: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.89/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2253` 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 119:88 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2252/) - next →: [Psalms 119:90 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2254/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 119:89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.89/)