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title: Psalms 51:21 (JPS 1917) — Then wilt Thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt-… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then wilt Thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt-offering and whole offering; then will they offer bullocks upon Thine altar. Who acts: Thou, walls. Psalms 51:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 51:21 · JPS 1917

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Then wilt Thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt-offering and whole offering; then will they offer bullocks upon Thine altar.

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**Who acts:** Thou, walls · **What happens:** delight, burn, offer, sacrifice · **To what, where:** sacrifices, bullocks, righteousness

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This is Psalms 51:21 · 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, walls), 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:862
# text = Then wilt Thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt-offering and whole offering; then will they offer bullocks upon Thine altar.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | future | Thou |  |  | the sacrifices of righteousness | then | in burnt offering and whole offering | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | future | walls *= wall* | bullocks |  |  | then | upon Thine altar | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |
| 4 | **sacrifice** |  |  | righteousness |  |  |  |  | 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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אָ֤ז תַּחְפֹּ֣ץ זִבְחֵי־צֶ֭דֶק עוֹלָ֣ה וְכָלִ֑יל אָ֤ז יַעֲל֖וּ עַל־מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ פָרִֽים׃

[Psalms 51:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.21/)

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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:862` 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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