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title: Psalms 119:129 (JPS 1917) — Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them. Who acts: testimonies, soul, Thy. Psalms 119:129 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:129 · JPS 1917

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Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.

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**Who acts:** testimonies, soul, Thy · **What happens:** be, keep, testify · **To what, where:** testimonies

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This is Psalms 119:129 · 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 (testimonies, soul, 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:2294
# text = Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	testimonies	testimony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy testimonies |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present · do-support | my soul | testimonies *= testimony* |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **testify** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication 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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פְּלָא֥וֹת עֵדְוֺתֶ֑יךָ עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן נְצָרָ֥תַם נַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Psalms 119:129: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.129/)

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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:2294` 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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