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title: Psalms 68:26 (JPS 1917) — The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of d… · tree and pragmatics
description: The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels. Who acts: singers, minstrels, damsels. Psalms 68:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:26 · JPS 1917

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The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.

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**Who acts:** singers, minstrels, damsels · **What happens:** go, follow, play · **To what, where:** midst

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This is Psalms 68:26 · 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 (singers, minstrels, damsels), 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:1116
# text = The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	after	after	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	timbrels	timbrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | present | the singers |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | the minstrels |  |  | the midst of damsels |  | after *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | damsels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon timbrels | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃

[Psalms 68:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/)

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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:1116` 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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