--- title: Psalms 118:23 (JPS 1917) — This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. · tree and pragmatics description: This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. Who acts: This, stone. Psalms 118:23 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.2155/) [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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/118/) / [118:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.23/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 118:23 · JPS 1917 This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. **Who acts:** This, stone · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** doing, eyes This is Psalms 118:23 · 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 (This, stone), 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:2155 # text = This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 'S 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 doing doing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | This | the LORD's doing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | stone | | | our eyes | | marvellous *property* | tree rules | 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} מֵאֵ֣ת יְ֭הוָה הָ֣יְתָה זֹּ֑את הִ֖יא נִפְלָ֣את בְּעֵינֵֽינוּ׃ [Psalms 118:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2155` 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 118:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2154/) - next →: [Psalms 118:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2156/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 118:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.23/)