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title: Psalms 51:12 (JPS 1917) — Create me a clean heart, O God; and renew a stedfast spirit within me. · tree and pragmatics
description: Create me a clean heart, O God; and renew a stedfast spirit within me. Who acts: you. Psalms 51:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 51:12 · JPS 1917

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Create me a clean heart, O God; and renew a stedfast spirit within me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** create, renew · **To what, where:** clean heart, me, stedfast spirit

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This is Psalms 51:12 · 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 (you), 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:853
# text = Create me a clean heart, O God; and renew a stedfast spirit within me.
1	Create	create	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	renew	renew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stedfast	stedfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **create** | imperative | you *not said here* | a clean heart | me |  |  | God *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **renew** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a stedfast spirit |  |  |  | within me | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |

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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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לֵ֣ב טָ֭הוֹר בְּרָא־לִ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְר֥וּחַ נָ֝כ֗וֹן חַדֵּ֥שׁ בְּקִרְבִּֽי׃

[Psalms 51:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.12/)

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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:853` 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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