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title: Psalms 143:10 (JPS 1917) — Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God; let Thy good spirit le… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God; let Thy good spirit lead me in an even land. Who acts: you, good spirit, Thy. Psalms 143:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 143:10 · JPS 1917

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Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God; let Thy good spirit lead me in an even land.

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**Who acts:** you, good spirit, Thy · **What happens:** teach, do, be, let, lead, will · **To what, where:** me, will, God, even land

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This is Psalms 143:10 · 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, good spirit, 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:2595
# text = Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God; let Thy good spirit lead me in an even land.
1	Teach	teach	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	do	do	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	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Thy will |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | you *not said here* | my God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | Thy good spirit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | infinitive | Thy good spirit *not said here* | me |  | a even land |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in land=Destination |
| 6 | **will** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom will «cognition transitive»: 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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לַמְּדֵ֤נִי ׀ לַֽעֲשׂ֣וֹת רְצוֹנֶךָ֮ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֪ה אֱל֫וֹהָ֥י רוּחֲךָ֥ טוֹבָ֑ה תַּ֝נְחֵ֗נִי בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִישֽׁוֹר׃

[Psalms 143:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.143.10/)

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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:2595` 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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