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title: Psalms 133:1 (JPS 1917) — Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell togeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Who acts: it, brethren. Psalms 133:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 133:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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**Who acts:** it, brethren · **What happens:** be, dwell · **To what, where:** unity

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This is Psalms 133:1 · 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 (it, brethren), 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:2451
# text = Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | brethren |  |  | unity |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in unity=Location |

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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 לְדָ֫וִ֥דהִנֵּ֣ה מַה־טּ֭וֹב וּמַה־נָּעִ֑ים שֶׁ֖בֶת אַחִ֣ים גַּם־יָֽחַד׃

[Psalms 133:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.133.1/)

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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.2450/)
2. **Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!**

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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:2451` 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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