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title: Psalms 19:11 (JPS 1917) — More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; swe… · tree and pragmatics
description: More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Who acts: ordinances. Psalms 19:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 19:11 · JPS 1917

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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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**Who acts:** ordinances · **What happens:** be, desire

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This is Psalms 19:11 · 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 (ordinances), 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:275
# text = More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	csubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ordinances *= ordinance* |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |

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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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הַֽנֶּחֱמָדִ֗ים מִ֭זָּהָב וּמִפַּ֣ז רָ֑ב וּמְתוּקִ֥ים מִ֝דְּבַ֗שׁ וְנֹ֣פֶת צוּפִֽים׃

[Psalms 19:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.11/)

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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:275` 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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