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title: Psalms 119:160 (JPS 1917) — The beginning of Thy word is truth; and all Thy righteous ordinance… · tree and pragmatics
description: The beginning of Thy word is truth; and all Thy righteous ordinance endureth for ever. Who acts: beginning, righteous ordinance, Thy. Psalms 119:160 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:160 · JPS 1917

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The beginning of Thy word is truth; and all Thy righteous ordinance endureth for ever.

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**Who acts:** beginning, righteous ordinance, Thy · **What happens:** be, endure, begin, word, ordain · **To what, where:** truth, word

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This is Psalms 119:160 · 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 (beginning, righteous ordinance, 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:2325
# text = The beginning of Thy word is truth; and all Thy righteous ordinance endureth for ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	endureth	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the beginning of Thy word | truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **endure** | present | Thy righteous ordinance |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | Thy word |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **ordain** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «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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רֹאשׁ־דְּבָרְךָ֥ אֱמֶ֑ת וּ֝לְעוֹלָ֗ם כָּל־מִשְׁפַּ֥ט צִדְקֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 119:160: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.160/)

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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:2325` 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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