--- title: Psalms 138:2 (JPS 1917) — I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, and give thanks unto Thy nam… · tree and pragmatics description: I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, and give thanks unto Thy name for Thy mercy and for Thy truth; for Thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name. Who acts: I, Thou, Thy. 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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, Thou, 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:2516 # text = I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, and give thanks unto Thy name for Thy mercy and for Thy truth; for Thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name. 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 bow bow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 toward toward ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 unto unto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 26 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 28 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 above above ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow down** | future | I | | | | | toward Thy holy temple; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thanks | | | | unto Thy name; for Thy mercy and Thy truth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for mercy=Asset | | 3 | **magnify** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy word | | Thy name | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **name** | | Thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **word** | | Thy | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **name** | | Thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֨ה אֶל־הֵיכַ֪ל קָדְשְׁךָ֡ וְא֘וֹדֶ֤ה אֶת־שְׁמֶ֗ךָ עַל־חַסְדְּךָ֥ וְעַל־אֲמִתֶּ֑ךָ כִּֽי־הִגְדַּ֥לְתָּ עַל־כָּל־שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ אִמְרָתֶֽךָ׃ [Psalms 138:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2516` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 138:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2515/) - next →: [Psalms 138:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2517/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 138:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.2/)