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title: Psalms 132:12 (JPS 1917) — If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.' Who acts: children, I, My. Psalms 132:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 132:12 · JPS 1917

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If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.'

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**Who acts:** children, I, My · **What happens:** keep, teach, sit, covenant, testify · **To what, where:** covenant, testimony, throne

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This is Psalms 132:12 · 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 (children, I, My), 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:2443
# text = If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thy children | My covenant and My testimony |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | shall | I | My testimony | covenant |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient they=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** | shall | children's children |  |  | thy throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **testify** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: 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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אִֽם־יִשְׁמְר֬וּ בָנֶ֨יךָ ׀ בְּרִיתִי֮ וְעֵדֹתִ֥י ז֗וֹ אֲלַ֫מְּדֵ֥ם גַּם־בְּנֵיהֶ֥ם עֲדֵי־עַ֑ד יֵ֝שְׁב֗וּ לְכִסֵּא־לָֽךְ׃

[Psalms 132:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.132.12/)

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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:2443` of Mova's parse database.

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