--- title: Psalms 68:5 (JPS 1917) — Sing unto God, sing praises to His name; extol Him that rideth upon… · tree and pragmatics description: Sing unto God, sing praises to His name; extol Him that rideth upon the skies, whose name is the LORD; and exult ye before Him. Who acts: you, name, ye, God. 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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, name, ye, God), 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:1094 # text = Sing unto God, sing praises to His name; extol Him that rideth upon the skies, whose name is the LORD; and exult ye before Him. 1 Sing sing 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 , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 6 praises praise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 extol extol VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 rideth ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 skies sky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 exult exult VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 27 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto God | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | praises | God's name | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent praise=Topic to name=Recipient | | 3 | **extol** | infinitive | you *not said here* | God | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | present | | | | | | upon the skies | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the LORD's name | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **exult** | infinitive | ye | | | | before God | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **name** | | God | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **name** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} שִׁ֤ירוּ ׀ לֵֽאלֹהִים֮ זַמְּר֪וּ שְׁ֫מ֥וֹ סֹ֡לּוּ לָרֹכֵ֣ב בָּ֭עֲרָבוֹת בְּיָ֥הּ שְׁמ֗וֹ וְעִלְז֥וּ לְפָנָֽיו׃ [Psalms 68:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1094` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 68:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1093/) - next →: [Psalms 68:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1095/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 68:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.5/)