--- title: Psalms 78:5 — For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Isra… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; Who acts: Asaph, fathers, praises. Psalms 78:5 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.78.5/) [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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/78/) / 78:5 # Psalms 78:5 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Asaph, fathers, praises · **What happens:** establish, appoint, command, make, know · **To what, where:** testimony, Jacob, law, Israel, praises · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 78:5 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 — Asaph, fathers, praises — and what happens in the verse to testimony, Jacob, law, Israel, praises, 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. וַיָּ֤קֶם עֵד֨וּת ׀ בְּֽיַעֲקֹ֗ב וְתוֹרָה֮ שָׂ֤ם בְּיִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִ֭וָּה אֶת־אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ לְ֝הוֹדִיעָ֗ם לִבְנֵיהֶֽם׃ [For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1332/) ## 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:1232 # text = וַיָּ֤קֶם עֵד֨וּת ׀ בְּֽיַעֲקֹ֗ב וְתוֹרָה֮ שָׂ֤ם בְּיִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִ֭וָּה אֶת־אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ לְ֝הוֹדִיעָ֗ם לִבְנֵיהֶֽם׃ # verse = PSA.78.5 1-2 וַיָּ֤קֶם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_78:5!1|MId=o190780050011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּ֤קֶם קוּם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.established|Ref=PSA_78:5!1|MId=o190780050012|Strong=6965|Frame=AA:190780040081;A0:190780050021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 עֵד֨וּת עֵדוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=a.testimony|Ref=PSA_78:5!2|MId=o190780050021|Strong=5715 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_78:5!2 5-6 בְּֽיַעֲקֹ֗ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בְּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_78:5!3|MId=o190780050031|Strong=0871a 6 יַעֲקֹ֗ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=PSA_78:5!3|MId=o190780050032|Strong=3290 7-8 וְתוֹרָה֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_78:5!4|MId=o190780050041|Strong=2050b 8 תוֹרָה֮ תּוֹרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=a.law|Ref=PSA_78:5!4|MId=o190780050042|Strong=8451 9 שָׂ֤ם שׂים VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.appointed|Ref=PSA_78:5!5|MId=o190780050051|Strong=7760|Frame=A0:190780040081;A1:190780050042;|Type=qatal 10-11 בְּיִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_78:5!6|MId=o190780050061|Strong=0871a 11 יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 9 obl _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=PSA_78:5!6|MId=o190780050062|Strong=3478 12 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 13 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=PSA_78:5!7|MId=o190780050071|Strong=0834|Type=relative 13 צִ֭וָּה צָוָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 8 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.commanded|Ref=PSA_78:5!8|MId=o190780050081|Strong=6680|Frame=A0:190780040081;A1:190780050101;|Type=qatal 14 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PSA_78:5!9|MId=o190780050091|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 15-16 אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 אֲבוֹתֵ֑י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 obj _ Gloss=ancestors|Ref=PSA_78:5!10|MId=o190780050101|Strong=0001 16 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=PSA_78:5!10|MId=o190780050102|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 17-19 לְ֝הוֹדִיעָ֗ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לְ֝ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_78:5!11|MId=o190780050111|Strong=3807a 18 הוֹדִיע יָדַע VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 13 xcomp _ Gloss=make|Ref=PSA_78:5!11|MId=o190780050112|Strong=3045|Frame=AA:190780050101;A0:190780050113;|Type=infinitive_construct 19 ָ֗ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ Gloss=them.known|Ref=PSA_78:5!11|MId=o190780050113|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 20-22 לִבְנֵיהֶֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_78:5!12|MId=o190780050121|Strong=3807a 21 בְנֵי בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 obl _ Gloss=children|Ref=PSA_78:5!12|MId=o190780050122|Strong=1121 22 הֶֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_78:5!12|MId=o190780050123|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=PSA_78:5!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּקֶם *he established* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | עֵדוּת *a testimony* | | | | | שָׂם *he appointed* | qatal · qal | | תוֹרָה *a law* | | | | צִוָּה *he commanded* | qatal · piel | | אֲבוֹתֵי *ancestors* | | | | הוֹדִיע *make* | infinitive construct · hiphil | ָם *them known* | | | אֲבוֹתֵי *ancestors* | 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} וַאֲקֵים סַהֲדוּתָא בִּדְבֵית יַעֲקֹב וְאוֹרַיְתָא גְזַר דְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל דִי פַקֵד לַאֲבָהָתָן לְהוֹדָעוּתְהוֹן לִבְנֵיהוֹן: 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. [For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1332/) **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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