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title: Psalms 119:108 (JPS 1917) — Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O LORD,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Thine ordinances. Who acts: you, I, Thine. Psalms 119:108 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:108 · JPS 1917

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Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Thine ordinances.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Thine · **What happens:** accept, beseech, teach, offer, ordain · **To what, where:** freewill offerings, Thee, ordinances, me, mouth

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This is Psalms 119:108 · 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 (you, I, Thine), 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:2273
# text = Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Thine ordinances.
1	Accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	freewill	freewill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | imperative | you *not said here* | the freewill offerings of my mouth |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 2 | **beseech** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine ordinances | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ordinance=Topic |
| 4 | **offer** |  |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **ordain** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | 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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נִדְב֣וֹת פִּ֭י רְצֵה־נָ֣א יְהוָ֑ה וּֽמִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ לַמְּדֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 119:108: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.108/)

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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:2273` 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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