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title: Psalms 119:92 (JPS 1917) — Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Who acts: law, I, mine. Psalms 119:92 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:92 · JPS 1917

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Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

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**Who acts:** law, I, mine · **What happens:** be, perish, afflict · **To what, where:** delight, affliction

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This is Psalms 119:92 · 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 (law, I, mine), 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:2256
# text = Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
1	Unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Thy law | my delight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | should · past · perfect | I |  |  | mine affliction | then |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **afflict** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state 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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לוּלֵ֣י ת֭וֹרָתְךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֑י אָ֝֗ז אָבַ֥דְתִּי בְעָנְיִֽי׃

[Psalms 119:92: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.92/)

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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:2256` 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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