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title: Psalms 139:14 (JPS 1917) — I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Who acts: I, works, soul, Thy. Psalms 139:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 139:14 · JPS 1917

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I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

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**Who acts:** I, works, soul, Thy · **What happens:** give, make, be, know, work · **To what, where:** thanks, I

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This is Psalms 139:14 · 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, works, soul, 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:2538
# text = I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
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	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
11	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | thanks |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | fearfully *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | Thy works |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | my soul |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **work** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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אֽוֹדְךָ֗ עַ֤ל כִּ֥י נוֹרָא֗וֹת נִ֫פְלֵ֥יתִי נִפְלָאִ֥ים מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י יֹדַ֥עַת מְאֹֽד׃

[Psalms 139:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.14/)

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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:2538` 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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