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title: Psalms 51:8 (JPS 1917) — Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart. Who acts: Thou, me. Psalms 51:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 51:8 · JPS 1917

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Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart.

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**Who acts:** Thou, me · **What happens:** desire, make, know · **To what, where:** truth, inward parts, me, wisdom, inmost heart

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This is Psalms 51:8 · 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 (Thou, me), 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:849
# text = Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	desirest	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	inmost	inmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **desire** | present | Thou | truth |  | the inward parts |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot truth=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | wisdom |  | mine inmost heart |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |

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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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הֵן־אֱ֭מֶת חָפַ֣צְתָּ בַטֻּח֑וֹת וּ֝בְסָתֻ֗ם חָכְמָ֥ה תוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

[Psalms 51:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.8/)

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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:849` 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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