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title: Psalms 122:1 (JPS 1917) — I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the LORD.' Who acts: I, Ascents, us. Psalms 122:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 122:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the LORD.'

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**Who acts:** I, Ascents, us · **What happens:** rejoice, say, let, go · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 122:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I, Ascents, us), 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:2360
# text = I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the LORD.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ascents *= ascent* |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the house of the LORD | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּעֲל֗וֹת לְדָ֫וִ֥דשָׂ֭מַחְתִּי בְּאֹמְרִ֣ים לִ֑י בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה נֵלֵֽךְ׃

[Psalms 122:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.122.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Song of Ascents; of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2359/)
2. **I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the LORD.'**

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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:2360` 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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