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title: Psalms 50:8 (JPS 1917) — I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me. Who acts: I, burnt offerings, thy. Psalms 50:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 50:8 · JPS 1917

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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.

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**Who acts:** I, burnt offerings, thy · **What happens:** not reprove, burn, be, sacrifice, offer · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Psalms 50:8 · 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 (I, burnt offerings, 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:825
# text = I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reprove	reprove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reprove** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | for thy sacrifices | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for sacrifice=Attribute |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | thy burnt offerings |  |  |  | before Me | continually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sacrifice** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **offer** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication 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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לֹ֣א עַל־זְ֭בָחֶיךָ אוֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ וְעוֹלֹתֶ֖יךָ לְנֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃

[Psalms 50:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.8/)

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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:825` 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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