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title: Psalms 27:8 (JPS 1917) — In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Who acts: heart, ye, I. Psalms 27:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 27:8 · JPS 1917

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In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

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**Who acts:** heart, ye, I · **What happens:** say, seek · **To what, where:** behalf, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 27:8 · 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 (heart, ye, 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:403
# text = In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | my heart |  |  | Thy behalf |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | ye | My face |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | future | I | Thy face |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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לְךָ֤ ׀ אָמַ֣ר לִ֭בִּי בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ פָנָ֑י אֶת־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָ֣ה אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃

[Psalms 27:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.8/)

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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:403` 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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