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title: Psalms 18:23 (JPS 1917) — For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statut… · tree and pragmatics
description: For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me. Who acts: ordinances, I, LORD. Psalms 18:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 18:23 · JPS 1917

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For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me.

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**Who acts:** ordinances, I, LORD · **What happens:** be, not put away, ordain · **To what, where:** statutes

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This is Psalms 18:23 · 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 (ordinances, I, LORD), 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:233
# text = For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	me	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | LORD's ordinances |  |  |  |  | me *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **put away** | past | I | LORD's statutes |  |  |  | from me; away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent statute=Goal |
| 3 | **ordain** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | 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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כִּ֣י כָל־מִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו לְנֶגְדִּ֑י וְ֝חֻקֹּתָ֗יו לֹא־אָסִ֥יר מֶֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.23/)

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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:233` 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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