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title: Psalms 143:8 (JPS 1917) — Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning, for in Thee do I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning, for in Thee do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto Thee have I lifted up my soul. Who acts: you, me, I. Psalms 143:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 143:8 · JPS 1917

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Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning, for in Thee do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto Thee have I lifted up my soul.

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**Who acts:** you, me, I · **What happens:** cause, hear, trust, know, walk, lift up · **To what, where:** me, lovingkindness, Thee, way, soul

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This is Psalms 143:8 · 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 (you, me, 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:2593
# text = Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning, for in Thee do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto Thee have I lifted up my soul.
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lovingkindness	lovingkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obl	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | Thy lovingkindness |  |  | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lovingkindness=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trust** | present · do-support | I |  |  | Thee |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 6 | **walk** | should | I |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lift up** | present · perfect | I | my soul |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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הַשְׁמִ֘יעֵ֤נִי בַבֹּ֨קֶר ׀ חַסְדֶּךָ֮ כִּֽי־בְךָ֪ בָ֫טָ֥חְתִּי הוֹדִיעֵ֗נִי דֶּֽרֶךְ־ז֥וּ אֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־אֵ֝לֶיךָ נָשָׂ֥אתִי נַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Psalms 143:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.143.8/)

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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:2593` 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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