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title: Psalms 119:116 (JPS 1917) — Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live; and put me not t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live; and put me not to shame in my hope. Who acts: you, I, Thy, my. Psalms 119:116 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:116 · JPS 1917

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Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live; and put me not to shame in my hope.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Thy, my · **What happens:** uphold, accord, live, not put, word, hope · **To what, where:** me, hope

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This is Psalms 119:116 · 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, Thy, my), 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:2281
# text = Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live; and put me not to shame in my hope.
1	Uphold	uphold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	according	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	case	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **uphold** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | accord Thy word | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | my hope |  | to shame | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in hope=Destination |
| 5 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **hope** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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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סָמְכֵ֣נִי כְאִמְרָתְךָ֣ וְאֶֽחְיֶ֑ה וְאַל־תְּ֝בִישֵׁ֗נִי מִשִּׂבְרִֽי׃

[Psalms 119:116: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.116/)

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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:2281` 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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