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title: Psalms 106:2 (JPS 1917) — Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard? Who acts: praise, LORD, mercy. Psalms 106:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 106:2 · JPS 1917

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Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?

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**Who acts:** praise, LORD, mercy · **What happens:** express, make, hear, act, praise · **To what, where:** mighty acts, praise

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This is Psalms 106:2 · 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 (praise, LORD, mercy), 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:1908
# text = Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | can |  | the mighty acts of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive |  | mercy's praise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | mercy's praise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 4 | **act** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **praise** |  | mercy |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication 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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מִ֗י יְ֭מַלֵּל גְּבוּר֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה יַ֝שְׁמִ֗יעַ כָּל־תְּהִלָּתֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 106:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.2/)

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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:1908` 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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