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title: Psalms 99:1 (JPS 1917) — The LORD reigneth; let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned upon the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD reigneth; let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake. Who acts: LORD, peoples, earth. Psalms 99:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 99:1 · JPS 1917

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The LORD reigneth; let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake.

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**Who acts:** LORD, peoples, earth · **What happens:** reign, let, tremble, enthrone, quake · **To what, where:** peoples, LORD, earth

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This is Psalms 99:1 · 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, peoples, earth), 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:1746
# text = The LORD reigneth; let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake.
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	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	enthroned	enthrone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cherubim	cherub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	quake	quake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **reign** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | the peoples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tremble** | infinitive | the peoples *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enthrone** | present · passive |  | LORD |  |  |  | upon the cherubim | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | the earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **quake** | infinitive | the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 יִרְגְּז֣וּ עַמִּ֑ים יֹשֵׁ֥ב כְּ֝רוּבִ֗ים תָּנ֥וּט הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 99:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.99.1/)

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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:1746` 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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