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title: Psalms 40:3 (JPS 1917) — He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry cla… · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings. Who acts: David, my. Psalms 40:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 40:3 · JPS 1917

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He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings.

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**Who acts:** David, my · **What happens:** bring up, set, establish, go · **To what, where:** me, tumultuous pit, feet, rock, goings

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This is Psalms 40:3 · 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 (David, 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:656
# text = He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tumultuous	tumultuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	goings	going	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past | David | me |  | the tumultuous pit |  | out the miry clay | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | past | David | my feet |  | a rock |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon rock=Destination |
| 3 | **establish** | past | David | my goings |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent going=Patient |
| 4 | **go** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom going «act intransitive»: 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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וַיַּעֲלֵ֤נִי ׀ מִבּ֥וֹר שָׁאוֹן֮ מִטִּ֪יט הַיָּ֫וֵ֥ן וַיָּ֖קֶם עַל־סֶ֥לַע רַגְלַ֗י כּוֹנֵ֥ן אֲשֻׁרָֽי׃

[Psalms 40:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.3/)

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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:656` 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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