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title: Psalms 103:21 (JPS 1917) — Bless the LORD, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bless the LORD, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure. Who acts: you, ye, ministers, LORD. Psalms 103:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 103:21 · JPS 1917

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Bless the LORD, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, ministers, LORD · **What happens:** bless, host, minister, do, please · **To what, where:** LORD, pleasure

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This is Psalms 103:21 · 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, ye, ministers, LORD), 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:1821
# text = Bless the LORD, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure.
1	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **host** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **minister** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of LORD | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present | ministers | LORD's pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Eventuality |
| 5 | **please** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling 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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בָּרֲכ֣וּ יְ֭הוָה כָּל־צְבָאָ֑יו מְ֝שָׁרְתָ֗יו עֹשֵׂ֥י רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 103:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.21/)

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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:1821` 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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