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title: Psalms 19:14 (JPS 1917) — Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins, that they may not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins, that they may not have dominion over me; then shall I be faultless, and I shall be clear from great transgression. Who acts: you, sins, I. Psalms 19:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 19:14 · JPS 1917

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Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins, that they may not have dominion over me; then shall I be faultless, and I shall be clear from great transgression.

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**Who acts:** you, sins, I · **What happens:** keep back, not have, be · **To what, where:** servant, presumptuous sins, dominion, great transgression

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This is Psalms 19:14 · 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, sins, 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:279
# text = Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins, that they may not have dominion over me; then shall I be faultless, and I shall be clear from great transgression.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	dominion	dominion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **keep back** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy servant |  | presumptuous sins |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer servant=Beneficiary from sin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **have** | may | sins *= sin* | dominion |  |  |  | over me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dominion=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  | then | faultless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I |  |  | great transgression |  | clear *property* | tree rules |

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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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גַּ֤ם מִזֵּדִ֨ים ׀ חֲשֹׂ֬ךְ עַבְדֶּ֗ךָ אַֽל־יִמְשְׁלוּ־בִ֣י אָ֣ז אֵיתָ֑ם וְ֝נִקֵּ֗יתִי מִפֶּ֥שַֽׁע רָֽב׃

[Psalms 19:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.14/)

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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:279` 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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