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title: Psalms 96:9 (JPS 1917) — O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; tremble before Him, al… · tree and pragmatics
description: O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth. Who acts: you. Psalms 96:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 96:9 · JPS 1917

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O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** worship, tremble · **To what, where:** LORD, beauty

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This is Psalms 96:9 · 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:1720
# text = O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	worship	worship	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	holiness	holiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worship** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD |  | the beauty of holiness |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tremble** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | before LORD |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |

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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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הִשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ לַ֭יהוָה בְּהַדְרַת־קֹ֑דֶשׁ חִ֥ילוּ מִ֝פָּנָ֗יו כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 96:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.96.9/)

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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:1720` 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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