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title: Psalms 19:8 (JPS 1917) — The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of… · tree and pragmatics
description: The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. Who acts: law, testimony, LORD. Psalms 19:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 19:8 · JPS 1917

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The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

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**Who acts:** law, testimony, LORD · **What happens:** be, restore, make, testify · **To what, where:** soul

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This is Psalms 19:8 · 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 (law, testimony, LORD), 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:272
# text = The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	restoring	restore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the law of the LORD |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **restore** | gerund | the law of the LORD *not said here* | the soul |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the testimony of the LORD |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the testimony of the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **testify** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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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תּ֘וֹרַ֤ת יְהוָ֣ה תְּ֭מִימָה מְשִׁ֣יבַת נָ֑פֶשׁ עֵד֥וּת יְהוָ֥ה נֶ֝אֱמָנָ֗ה מַחְכִּ֥ימַת פֶּֽתִי׃

[Psalms 19:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.8/)

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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:272` 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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