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title: Psalms 119:117 (JPS 1917) — Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with… · tree and pragmatics
description: Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually. Who acts: Thou, I. Psalms 119:117 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:117 · JPS 1917

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Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I · **What happens:** support, save, occupy · **To what, where:** me, I, myself

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This is Psalms 119:117 · 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 (Thou, 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:2282
# text = Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.
1	Support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	occupy	occupy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **support** | infinitive | Thou | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **save** | shall · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **occupy** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | with Thy statutes; continually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |

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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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סְעָדֵ֥נִי וְאִוָּשֵׁ֑עָה וְאֶשְׁעָ֖ה בְחֻקֶּ֣יךָ תָמִֽיד׃

[Psalms 119:117: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.117/)

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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:2282` 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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