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title: Psalms 138:1 (JPS 1917) — I will give Thee thanks with my whole heart, in the presence of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will give Thee thanks with my whole heart, in the presence of the mighty will I sing praises unto Thee. Who acts: I. Psalms 138:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 138:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I will give Thee thanks with my whole heart, in the presence of the mighty will I sing praises unto Thee.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, sing · **To what, where:** thanks, Thee, praises, presence

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This is Psalms 138:1 · 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 (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:2515
# text = I will give Thee thanks with my whole heart, in the presence of the mighty will I sing praises unto Thee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	iobj	_	_
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mighty	mighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | thanks | Thee |  |  | with my whole heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient thanks=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I | praises |  | the presence of the mighty |  | unto Thee | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=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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לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ אוֹדְךָ֥ בְכָל־לִבִּ֑י נֶ֖גֶד אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲזַמְּרֶֽךָּ׃

[Psalms 138:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2514/)
2. **I will give Thee thanks with my whole heart, in the presence of the mighty will I sing praises unto Thee.**

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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:2515` 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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