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title: Psalms 118:3 (JPS 1917) — So let the house of Aaron now say, for His mercy endureth for ever. · tree and pragmatics
description: So let the house of Aaron now say, for His mercy endureth for ever. Who acts: you, house, mercy. Psalms 118:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 118:3 · JPS 1917

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So let the house of Aaron now say, for His mercy endureth for ever.

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**Who acts:** you, house, mercy · **What happens:** let, say, endure · **To what, where:** house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 118:3 · 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, house, 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:2135
# text = So let the house of Aaron now say, for His mercy endureth for ever.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	endureth	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	fixed	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the house of Aaron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the house of Aaron *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **endure** | present | Aaron's mercy |  |  |  |  | for *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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יֹֽאמְרוּ־נָ֥א בֵֽית־אַהֲרֹ֑ן כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 118:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.3/)

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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:2135` 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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