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title: Psalms 66:3 (JPS 1917) — Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work! · tree and pragmatics
description: Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work! Who acts: you, work, Thy. Psalms 66:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 66:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work!

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**Who acts:** you, work, Thy · **What happens:** say, be, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 66:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, work, Thy), 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:1061
# text = Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work!
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Thy work |  |  |  |  | tremendous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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אִמְר֣וּ לֵ֭אלֹהִים מַה־נּוֹרָ֣א מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ בְּרֹ֥ב עֻ֝זְּךָ֗ יְֽכַחֲשׁ֖וּ לְךָ֣ אֹיְבֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 66:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work!**
2. [Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away before Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1062/)

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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:1061` 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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