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title: Psalms 40:10 (JPS 1917) — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, lo, I did n… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, lo, I did not refrain my lips; O LORD, Thou knowest. Who acts: I, Thou. Psalms 40:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 40:10 · JPS 1917

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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, lo, I did not refrain my lips; O LORD, Thou knowest.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** preach, not refrain, know · **To what, where:** righteousness, great congregation, lips

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This is Psalms 40:10 · 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, Thou), 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:664
# text = I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, lo, I did not refrain my lips; O LORD, Thou knowest.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	preached	preach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preach** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | righteousness |  | the great congregation |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **refrain** | past · do-support | I | my lips |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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בִּשַּׂ֤רְתִּי צֶ֨דֶק ׀ בְּקָ֘הָ֤ל רָ֗ב הִנֵּ֣ה שְׂ֭פָתַי לֹ֣א אֶכְלָ֑א יְ֝הוָ֗ה אַתָּ֥ה יָדָֽעְתָּ׃

[Psalms 40:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.10/)

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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:664` 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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