---
title: Psalms 119:100 (JPS 1917) — I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts. · tree and pragmatics
description: I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts. Who acts: I. Psalms 119:100 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2265/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [119:100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.100/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 119:100 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** understand, keep · **To what, where:** precepts

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 119:100 · 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 (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:2265
# text = I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than mine elders | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | I | Thy precepts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃

[Psalms 119:100: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.100/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2265` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 119:99 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2264/)
- next →: [Psalms 119:101 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2266/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 119:100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.100/)