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title: Psalms 119:121 (JPS 1917) — I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppresso… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppressors. Who acts: I. Psalms 119:121 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:121 · JPS 1917

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I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppressors.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, not leave · **To what, where:** justice, me, oppressors

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This is Psalms 119:121 · 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), 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:2286
# text = I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppressors.
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	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	oppressors	oppressor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | I | justice and righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | infinitive |  | me | mine oppressors |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to oppressor=Recipient |

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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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עָ֭שִׂיתִי מִשְׁפָּ֣ט וָצֶ֑דֶק בַּל־תַּ֝נִּיחֵ֗נִי לְעֹֽשְׁקָֽי׃

[Psalms 119:121: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.121/)

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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:2286` 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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