--- title: Psalms 126:1 — A Song of Ascents. When the LORD brought back those that returned to… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: A Song of Ascents. When the LORD brought back those that returned to Zion, we were like unto them that dream. Who acts: LORD, we. Psalms 126:1 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/126/) / 126:1 # Psalms 126:1 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** LORD, we · **What happens:** bring back, return, be, dream · **To what, where:** those, Zion This is Psalms 126:1 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — LORD, we — and what happens in the verse to those, Zion, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹתבְּשׁ֣וּב יְ֭הוָה אֶת־שִׁיבַ֣ת צִיּ֑וֹן הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ כְּחֹלְמִֽים׃ [A Song of Ascents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2389/) [When the LORD brought back those that returned to Zion, we were like unto them that dream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2390/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:2240 # text = שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹתבְּשׁ֣וּב יְ֭הוָה אֶת־שִׁיבַ֣ת צִיּ֑וֹן הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ כְּחֹלְמִֽים׃ # verse = PSA.126.1 1 שִׁ֗יר שִׁיר NOUN _ Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=the.song|Ref=PSA_126:1!1|MId=o191260010011|Strong=7892 2-5 הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹתבְּשׁ֣וּב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=PSA_126:1!2|MId=o191260010021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 מַּ֫עֲל֥וֹת מַעֲלָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.ascents|Ref=PSA_126:1!2|MId=o191260010022|Strong=4609 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=PSA_126:1!3|MId=o191260010031|Strong=0871a 5 שׁ֣וּב שׁוּב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 1 parataxis _ Gloss=restored|Ref=PSA_126:1!3|MId=o191260010032|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:191260010041;A1:191260010061;|Type=infinitive_construct 6 יְ֭הוָה יהוה PROPN _ _ 5 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PSA_126:1!4|MId=o191260010041|Strong=3068 7 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PSA_126:1!5|MId=o191260010051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 8 שִׁיבַ֣ת שִׁיבָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 obj _ Gloss=the.restoration|Ref=PSA_126:1!6|MId=o191260010061|Strong=7870 9 צִיּ֑וֹן צִיּוֹן PROPN _ _ 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Zion|Ref=PSA_126:1!7|MId=o191260010071|Strong=6726 10 הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 cop _ Gloss=we.were|Ref=PSA_126:1!8|MId=o191260010081|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:191260010061;|Type=qatal 11-12 כְּחֹלְמִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=PSA_126:1!9|MId=o191260010091|Strong=3509a 12 חֹלְמִֽים חָלַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 5 advcl _ Gloss=[those.who].dream|Ref=PSA_126:1!9|MId=o191260010092|Strong=2492a|Type=participle_active 13 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 12 punct _ Ref=PSA_126:1!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שׁוּב *restored* | infinitive construct · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | שִׁיבַת *the restoration* | | | | הָיִינוּ *we were* | qatal · qal | שִׁיבַת *the restoration* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} שִׁירָא דְאִתְאַמַר עַל מַסוּקִין דִתְהוֹמָא כַּד יְתוּב יְיָ יַת גַלְוָת צִיוֹן הֲוֵינָא הֵיךְ מַרְעַיָא דְאִתַּסְיָן: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [A Song of Ascents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2389/) 2. [When the LORD brought back those that returned to Zion, we were like unto them that dream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2390/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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