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title: Psalms 92:2 (JPS 1917) — It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High; Who acts: It, Thy. Psalms 92:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 92:2 · JPS 1917

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It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High;

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**Who acts:** It, Thy · **What happens:** be, give, sing, name · **To what, where:** good thing, thanks, praises

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This is Psalms 92:2 · 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 (It, Thy), 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:1654
# text = It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High;
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
22	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | thanks |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  | praises |  |  |  | unto Thy name | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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ט֗וֹב לְהֹד֥וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה וּלְזַמֵּ֖ר לְשִׁמְךָ֣ עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

[Psalms 92:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.2/)

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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:1654` 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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