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title: 1 Chronicles 16:9 (JPS 1917) — Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works. Who acts: you, ye, David. 1 Chronicles 16:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 16:9 · JPS 1917

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Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, David · **What happens:** sing, speak, work · **To what, where:** praises · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 16:9 · 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 (you, ye, David), 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:1CH:630
# text = Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto David | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | praises |  |  |  | unto David | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | of David's marvellous works | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **work** |  | David |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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שִׁ֤ירוּ לוֹ֙ זַמְּרוּ־ל֔וֹ שִׂ֖יחוּ בְּכָל־נִפְלְאֹתָֽיו׃

[1 Chronicles 16:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.9/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:630` 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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