--- title: Psalms 81:2 (JPS 1917) — Sing aloud unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. · tree and pragmatics description: Sing aloud unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. Who acts: you. Psalms 81:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1438/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/81/) / [81:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.2/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 81:2 · JPS 1917 Sing aloud unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sing, shout This is Psalms 81:2 · 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), 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:1438 # text = Sing aloud unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. 1 Sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 unto unto ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto God; aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the God of Jacob | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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} הַ֭רְנִינוּ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים עוּזֵּ֑נוּ הָ֝רִ֗יעוּ לֵאלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב׃ [Psalms 81:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1438` 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 81:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1437/) - next →: [Psalms 81:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1439/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 81:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.2/)