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title: Psalms 119:103 (JPS 1917) — How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to m… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 119:103 · JPS 1917

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How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

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**Who acts:** words, Thy · **What happens:** be, word

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This is Psalms 119:103 · 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 (words, 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:2268
# text = How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	palate	palate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy words |  |  |  |  | unto my palate; sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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מַה־נִּמְלְצ֣וּ לְ֭חִכִּי אִמְרָתֶ֗ךָ מִדְּבַ֥שׁ לְפִֽי׃

[Psalms 119:103: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.103/)

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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:2268` 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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