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title: Psalms 68:4 (JPS 1917) — But let the righteous be glad, let them exult before God; yea, let t… · tree and pragmatics
description: But let the righteous be glad, let them exult before God; yea, let them rejoice with gladness. Who acts: you, righteous, enemies. Psalms 68:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:4 · JPS 1917

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But let the righteous be glad, let them exult before God; yea, let them rejoice with gladness.

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**Who acts:** you, righteous, enemies · **What happens:** let, be, exult, rejoice · **To what, where:** enemies

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This is Psalms 68:4 · 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, righteous, enemies), 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:1093
# text = But let the righteous be glad, let them exult before God; yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	exult	exult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | the righteous |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exult** | infinitive | enemies *= enemy* *not said here* |  |  |  | before God |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rejoice** | infinitive | enemies *= enemy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gladness | 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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וְֽצַדִּיקִ֗ים יִשְׂמְח֣וּ יַֽ֭עַלְצוּ לִפְנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִ֗ים וְיָשִׂ֥ישׂוּ בְשִׂמְחָֽה׃

[Psalms 68:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.4/)

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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:1093` 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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