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title: Psalms 119:173 (JPS 1917) — Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts. Who acts: hand, I. Psalms 119:173 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:173 · JPS 1917

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Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts.

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**Who acts:** hand, I · **What happens:** let, be, help, choose · **To what, where:** me, precepts

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This is Psalms 119:173 · 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 (hand, I), 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:2338
# text = Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
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 | **let** | infinitive | Thy hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Thy hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | Thy hand *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | Thy precepts |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |

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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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תְּהִֽי־יָדְךָ֥ לְעָזְרֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ בָחָֽרְתִּי׃

[Psalms 119:173: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.173/)

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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:2338` 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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