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title: Psalms 40:9 (JPS 1917) — I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost par… · tree and pragmatics
description: I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.' Who acts: I, law, Thy. Psalms 40:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 40:9 · JPS 1917

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I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'

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**Who acts:** I, law, Thy · **What happens:** delight, do, be, will · **To what, where:** will, inmost parts

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This is Psalms 40:9 · 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, law, 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:663
# text = I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
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	2	vocative	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	inmost	inmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- 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 | **delight** | present | I |  |  |  |  | my God *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Thy will |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | Thy law |  |  | my inmost parts |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **will** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom will «cognition transitive»: 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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לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת־רְצוֹנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי׃

[Psalms 40:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.9/)

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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:663` 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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