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title: Psalms 105:22 (JPS 1917) — To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. · tree and pragmatics
description: To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. Who acts: Canaan. Psalms 105:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 105:22 · JPS 1917

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To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

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**Who acts:** Canaan · **What happens:** bind, teach, please · **To what, where:** princes, pleasure, wisdom, elders

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This is Psalms 105:22 · 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 (Canaan), 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:1883
# text = To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	_
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bind** | to-infinitive |  | Canaan's princes |  | Canaan's pleasure |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | wisdom | Canaan's elders |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient wisdom=Topic |
| 3 | **please** |  | Canaan |  |  |  |  |  | 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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לֶאְסֹ֣ר שָׂרָ֣יו בְּנַפְשׁ֑וֹ וּזְקֵנָ֥יו יְחַכֵּֽם׃

[Psalms 105:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.22/)

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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:1883` 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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