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title: Psalms 97:1 (JPS 1917) — The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad. Who acts: LORD, earth, multitude. Psalms 97:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 97:1 · JPS 1917

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The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad.

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**Who acts:** LORD, earth, multitude · **What happens:** reign, let, rejoice, be

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This is Psalms 97:1 · 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 (LORD, earth, multitude), 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:1725
# text = The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reigneth	reign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the earth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive | the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | the multitude of isles |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | the multitude of isles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |

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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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יְהוָ֣ה מָ֭לָךְ תָּגֵ֣ל הָאָ֑רֶץ יִ֝שְׂמְח֗וּ אִיִּ֥ים רַבִּֽים׃

[Psalms 97:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.1/)

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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:1725` 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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