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title: Psalms 26:6 (JPS 1917) — I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD, Who acts: I. Psalms 26:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 26:6 · JPS 1917

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I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD,

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wash, compass · **To what, where:** hands, innocency, altar

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This is Psalms 26:6 · 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 (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:387
# text = I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD,
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	innocency	innocency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	compass	compass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **wash** | future | I | my hands |  | innocency |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **compass** | future | I | Thine altar |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | 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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אֶרְחַ֣ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּ֑י וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖ה אֶת־מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 26:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.26.6/)

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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:387` 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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