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title: Psalms 119:176 (JPS 1917) — I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I have n… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I have not forgotten Thy commandments. Who acts: I, Thy. Psalms 119:176 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 119:176 · JPS 1917

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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I have not forgotten Thy commandments.

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**Who acts:** I, Thy · **What happens:** go, lose, seek, not forget, command · **To what, where:** servant, commandments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 119:176 · 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 (I, 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:2341
# text = I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I have not forgotten Thy commandments.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	astray	astray	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | like a lost sheep; astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | infinitive |  | Thy servant |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **forget** | present · perfect | I | Thy commandments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 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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תָּעִ֗יתִי כְּשֶׂ֣ה אֹ֭בֵד בַּקֵּ֣שׁ עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃

[Psalms 119:176: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.176/)

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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:2341` 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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