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title: Psalms 9:12 (JPS 1917) — Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion; declare among the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion; declare among the peoples His doings. Who acts: you, LORD. Psalms 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 9:12 · JPS 1917

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Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion; declare among the peoples His doings.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD · **What happens:** sing, dwell, declare · **To what, where:** praises, LORD, Zion, doings

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This is Psalms 9:12 · 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, LORD), 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:107
# text = Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion; declare among the peoples His doings.
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | praises | the LORD |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent praise=Topic to lord=Recipient |
| 2 | **dwell** | present | the LORD |  |  | Zion |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zion=Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | LORD's doings |  |  |  | among the peoples | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doing=Attribute |

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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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זַמְּר֗וּ לַ֭יהוָה יֹשֵׁ֣ב צִיּ֑וֹן הַגִּ֥ידוּ בָ֝עַמִּ֗ים עֲלִֽילוֹתָֽיו׃

[Psalms 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.12/)

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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:107` 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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