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title: Psalms 117:1 (JPS 1917) — O praise the LORD, all ye nations; laud Him, all ye peoples. · tree and pragmatics
description: O praise the LORD, all ye nations; laud Him, all ye peoples. Who acts: you. Psalms 117:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 117:1 · JPS 1917

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O praise the LORD, all ye nations; laud Him, all ye peoples.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** praise, laud · **To what, where:** LORD, Him

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This is Psalms 117:1 · 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:2131
# text = O praise the LORD, all ye nations; laud Him, all ye peoples.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	praise	praise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	det	_	_
8	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	vocative	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laud	laud	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	det	_	_
15	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	vocative	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  | all nations *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **laud** | infinitive |  | Him *= he* |  |  |  | all peoples *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת־יְ֭הוָה כָּל־גּוֹיִ֑ם שַׁ֝בְּח֗וּהוּ כָּל־הָאֻמִּֽים׃

[Psalms 117:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.117.1/)

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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:2131` 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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