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title: Psalms 119:106 (JPS 1917) — I have sworn, and have confirmed it, to observe Thy righteous ordina… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have sworn, and have confirmed it, to observe Thy righteous ordinances. Who acts: I, Thy. Psalms 119:106 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:106 · JPS 1917

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I have sworn, and have confirmed it, to observe Thy righteous ordinances.

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**Who acts:** I, Thy · **What happens:** swear, confirm, observe, ordain · **To what, where:** word, righteous ordinances

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This is Psalms 119:106 · 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, 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:2271
# text = I have sworn, and have confirmed it, to observe Thy righteous ordinances.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **confirm** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | word |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic |
| 3 | **observe** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Thy righteous ordinances |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ordinance=Topic |
| 4 | **ordain** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «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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נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי וָאֲקַיֵּ֑מָה לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר מִשְׁפְּטֵ֥י צִדְקֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 119:106: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.106/)

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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:2271` 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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