--- title: Psalms 25:5 (JPS 1917) — Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; for Thou art the God of my salv… · tree and pragmatics description: Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; for Thou art the God of my salvation; for Thee do I wait all the day. Who acts: you, Thou, I, my. Psalms 25:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.363/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/25/) / [25:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.5/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 25:5 · JPS 1917 Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; for Thou art the God of my salvation; for Thee do I wait all the day. **Who acts:** you, Thou, I, my · **What happens:** guide, teach, be, wait, salve · **To what, where:** me, truth, God This is Psalms 25:5 · 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, Thou, I, my), 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:363 # text = Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; for Thou art the God of my salvation; for Thee do I wait all the day. 1 Guide guide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 teach teach VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 13 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obl _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guide** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | Thy truth | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in truth=Destination | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Thou | the God | | | | of my salvation | tree rules | | 4 | **wait** | present · do-support | I | | | | day | for Thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **salve** | | my | | | | | | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הַדְרִ֘יכֵ֤נִי בַאֲמִתֶּ֨ךָ ׀ וְֽלַמְּדֵ֗נִי כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׁעִ֑י אוֹתְךָ֥ קִ֝וִּ֗יתִי כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃ [Psalms 25:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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