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title: Psalms 119:130 (JPS 1917) — The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Who acts: opening, Thy. Psalms 119:130 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:130 · JPS 1917

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The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

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**Who acts:** opening, Thy · **What happens:** give, word · **To what, where:** light, understanding

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This is Psalms 119:130 · 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 (opening, 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:2295
# text = The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	simple	simple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the opening of Thy words | light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | opening | understanding |  |  |  | unto the simple | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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פֵּ֖תַח דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ יָאִ֗יר מֵבִ֥ין פְּתָיִֽים׃

[Psalms 119:130: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.130/)

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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:2295` 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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