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title: Psalms 66:6 (JPS 1917) — He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot; there let us rejoice in Him! Who acts: God, men, us. Psalms 66:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 66:6 · JPS 1917

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He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot; there let us rejoice in Him!

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**Who acts:** God, men, us · **What happens:** turn, go, let, rejoice · **To what, where:** sea, dry land, river, us

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This is Psalms 66:6 · 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 (God, men, us), 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:1065
# text = He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot; there let us rejoice in Him!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | God | the sea |  | dry land |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the river |  | on foot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through river=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rejoice** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in God | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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הָ֤פַךְ יָ֨ם ׀ לְֽיַבָּשָׁ֗ה בַּ֭נָּהָר יַֽעַבְר֣וּ בְרָ֑גֶל שָׁ֝֗ם נִשְׂמְחָה־בּֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 66:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.6/)

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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:1065` 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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