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title: Psalms 119:154 (JPS 1917) — Plead Thou my cause, and redeem me; quicken me according to Thy word. · tree and pragmatics
description: Plead Thou my cause, and redeem me; quicken me according to Thy word. Who acts: Thou, my, Thy. Psalms 119:154 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:154 · JPS 1917

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Plead Thou my cause, and redeem me; quicken me according to Thy word.

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**Who acts:** Thou, my, Thy · **What happens:** plead, redeem, quicken, accord, cause, word · **To what, where:** cause, me

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This is Psalms 119:154 · 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, my, 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:2319
# text = Plead Thou my cause, and redeem me; quicken me according to Thy word.
1	Plead	plead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	quicken	quicken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **plead** *speech: request* | infinitive | Thou | my cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **redeem** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **quicken** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | accord Thy word | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **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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רִיבָ֣ה רִ֭יבִי וּגְאָלֵ֑נִי לְאִמְרָתְךָ֥ חַיֵּֽנִי׃

[Psalms 119:154: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.154/)

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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:2319` 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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