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title: Psalms 59:18 (JPS 1917) — O my strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; for God is my high tow… · tree and pragmatics
description: O my strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; for God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. Who acts: I, God. Psalms 59:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 59:18 · JPS 1917

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O my strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; for God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

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**Who acts:** I, God · **What happens:** sing, be · **To what, where:** praises, high tower

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This is Psalms 59:18 · 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, God), 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:976
# text = O my strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; for God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I | praises |  |  |  | unto Thee; my strength *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | God | my high tower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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עֻ֭זִּי אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֲזַמֵּ֑רָה כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֥ים מִ֝שְׂגַּבִּ֗י אֱלֹהֵ֥י חַסְדִּֽי׃

[Psalms 59:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.18/)

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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:976` 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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