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title: Psalms 131:1 (JPS 1917) — LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exe… · tree and pragmatics
description: LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me. Who acts: heart, eyes, I. Psalms 131:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 131:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.

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**Who acts:** heart, eyes, I · **What happens:** not be, be, exercise · **To what, where:** myself, things

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This is Psalms 131:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (heart, eyes, 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:2428
# text = LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.
1	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
10	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exercise	exercise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | my heart |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative*; haughty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | mine eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exercise** | present · do-support | I | myself |  | things |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |

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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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שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֗וֹת לְדָ֫וִ֥דיְהוָ֤ה ׀ לֹא־גָבַ֣הּ לִ֭בִּי וְלֹא־רָמ֣וּ עֵינַ֑י וְלֹֽא־הִלַּ֓כְתִּי ׀ בִּגְדֹל֖וֹת וּבְנִפְלָא֣וֹת מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[Psalms 131:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.131.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Song of Ascents; of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2427/)
2. **LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.**

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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:2428` 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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