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title: Psalms 119:169 (JPS 1917) — Let my cry come near before Thee, O LORD; give me understanding acco… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my cry come near before Thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to Thy word. Who acts: you, cry, my, Thy. Psalms 119:169 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:169 · JPS 1917

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Let my cry come near before Thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to Thy word.

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**Who acts:** you, cry, my, Thy · **What happens:** let, come, give, accord, cry, word · **To what, where:** cry, Thee, understanding, me

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This is Psalms 119:169 · 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 (you, cry, 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:2334
# text = Let my cry come near before Thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to Thy word.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my cry |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | my cry *not said here* |  |  | Thee |  | near *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before thou=Location |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | understanding | me |  |  | accord Thy word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient understanding=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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תִּקְרַ֤ב רִנָּתִ֣י לְפָנֶ֣יךָ יְהוָ֑ה כִּדְבָרְךָ֥ הֲבִינֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 119:169: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.169/)

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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:2334` 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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