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title: Psalms 51:19 (JPS 1917) — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite h… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. Who acts: sacrifices, Thou. Psalms 51:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 51:19 · JPS 1917

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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

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**Who acts:** sacrifices, Thou · **What happens:** be, not despise, sacrifice · **To what, where:** broken spirit, broken contrite heart, God

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This is Psalms 51:19 · 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 (sacrifices, 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:860
# text = The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	broken	break	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	broken	break	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	contrite	contrite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
21	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is a** | present | the sacrifices of God | a broken spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **despise** | future | Thou | a broken contrite heart |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sacrifice** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=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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זִֽבְחֵ֣י אֱלֹהִים֮ ר֪וּחַ נִשְׁבָּ֫רָ֥ה לֵב־נִשְׁבָּ֥ר וְנִדְכֶּ֑ה אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים לֹ֣א תִבְזֶֽה׃

[Psalms 51:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.19/)

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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:860` 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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