--- title: Psalms 113:1 (JPS 1917) — Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. · tree and pragmatics description: Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. Who acts: you. Psalms 113:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2074/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/113/) / [113:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.113.1/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 113:1 · JPS 1917 Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** praise, name · **To what, where:** name, LORD This is Psalms 113:1 · 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 (you), 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:2074 # text = Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. 1 Praise praise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 det _ _ 5 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 vocative _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 praise praise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **praise** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | ye servants of the LORD *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **praise** | infinitive | | the name of the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 3 | **name** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ ׀ הַ֭לְלוּ עַבְדֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַֽ֝לְלוּ אֶת־שֵׁ֥ם יְהוָֽה׃ [Psalms 113:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.113.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2074` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 112:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2073/) - next →: [Psalms 113:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2075/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 113:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.113.1/)