--- title: Psalms 40:6 (JPS 1917) — Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works,… · tree and pragmatics description: Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works, and Thy thoughts toward us; there is none to be compared unto Thee! Who acts: Thou, none, Thy. 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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 (Thou, none, Thy), 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:659 # text = Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works, and Thy thoughts toward us; there is none to be compared unto Thee! 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 3 hast have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 O o INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 vocative _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 toward toward ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 29 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obl _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present · perfect | Thou | Many things | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **be** | present | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **compare** | to-infinitive · passive | none *not said here* | | | | | unto Thee | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | | 4 | **work** | | Thy | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **think** | | Thy | | | | | toward us | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent toward=obl | 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} רַבּ֤וֹת עָשִׂ֨יתָ ׀ אַתָּ֤ה ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהַי֮ נִֽפְלְאֹתֶ֥יךָ וּמַחְשְׁבֹתֶ֗יךָ אֵ֫לֵ֥ינוּ אֵ֤ין ׀ עֲרֹ֬ךְ אֵלֶ֗יךָ אַגִּ֥ידָה וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה עָ֝צְמ֗וּ מִסַּפֵּֽר׃ [Psalms 40:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.6/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works, and Thy thoughts toward us; there is none to be compared unto Thee!** 2. [If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be told.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.660/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:659` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 40:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.658/) - next →: [Psalms 40:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.660/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 40:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.6/)