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title: Psalms 23:3 (JPS 1917) — He restoreth my soul; He guideth me in straight paths for His name's… · tree and pragmatics
description: He restoreth my soul; He guideth me in straight paths for His name's sake. Who acts: shepherd. Psalms 23:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 23:3 · JPS 1917

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He restoreth my soul; He guideth me in straight paths for His name's sake.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** restore, guide, name · **To what, where:** soul, me, straight paths

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This is Psalms 23:3 · 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 (shepherd), 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:343
# text = He restoreth my soul; He guideth me in straight paths for His name's sake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	restoreth	restore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	guideth	guide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | present | shepherd | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **guide** | present | shepherd | me |  | straight paths |  | for shepherd's name's sake | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in path=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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נַפְשִׁ֥י יְשׁוֹבֵ֑ב יַֽנְחֵ֥נִי בְמַעְגְּלֵי־צֶ֝֗דֶק לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 23:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.23.3/)

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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:343` 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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