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title: Psalms 101:1 (JPS 1917) — I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing pra… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises. Who acts: I. Psalms 101:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 101:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** praises

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This is Psalms 101:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I), 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:1762
# text = I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I |  |  |  |  | of mercy and justice | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I | praises |  |  |  | unto Thee; LORD *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |

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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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לְדָוִ֗ד מִ֫זְמ֥וֹרחֶֽסֶד־וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט אָשִׁ֑ירָה לְךָ֖ יְהוָ֣ה אֲזַמֵּֽרָה׃

[Psalms 101:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.101.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1761/)
2. **I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises.**

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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:1762` 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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