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title: Psalms 119:172 (JPS 1917) — Let my tongue sing of Thy word; for all Thy commandments are righteo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my tongue sing of Thy word; for all Thy commandments are righteousness. Who acts: you, tongue, commandments, Thy. Psalms 119:172 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:172 · JPS 1917

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Let my tongue sing of Thy word; for all Thy commandments are righteousness.

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**Who acts:** you, tongue, commandments, Thy · **What happens:** let, sing, be, word, command · **To what, where:** tongue, righteousness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 119:172 · 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, tongue, commandments, 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:2337
# text = Let my tongue sing of Thy word; for all Thy commandments are righteousness.
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	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=express, indirect=1

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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 tongue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | my tongue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Thy word | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Thy commandments | righteousness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **command** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «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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תַּ֣עַן לְ֭שׁוֹנִי אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּ֖י כָל־מִצְוֺתֶ֣יךָ צֶּֽדֶק׃

[Psalms 119:172: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.172/)

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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:2337` 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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