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title: Psalms 19:12 (JPS 1917) — Moreover by them is Thy servant warned; in keeping of them there is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover by them is Thy servant warned; in keeping of them there is great reward. Who acts: ordinances, great reward. Psalms 19:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 19:12 · JPS 1917

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Moreover by them is Thy servant warned; in keeping of them there is great reward.

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**Who acts:** ordinances, great reward · **What happens:** warn, keep, be · **To what, where:** servant

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This is Psalms 19:12 · 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, great reward), 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:276
# text = Moreover by them is Thy servant warned; in keeping of them there is great reward.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · passive | ordinances *= ordinance* | Thy servant |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | great reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of ordinances *= ordinance* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | present | great reward |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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גַּֽם־עַ֭בְדְּךָ נִזְהָ֣ר בָּהֶ֑ם בְּ֝שָׁמְרָ֗ם עֵ֣קֶב רָֽב׃

[Psalms 19:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.12/)

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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:276` 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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