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title: Psalms 135:3 (JPS 1917) — Praise ye the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises unto His name… · tree and pragmatics
description: Praise ye the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises unto His name, for it is pleasant. Who acts: ye, LORD, praise, God. Psalms 135:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 135:3 · JPS 1917

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Praise ye the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises unto His name, for it is pleasant.

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD, praise, God · **What happens:** praise, be, sing, name · **To what, where:** LORD, praises

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This is Psalms 135:3 · 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 (ye, LORD, praise, God), 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:2460
# text = Praise ye the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises unto His name, for it is pleasant.
1	Praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | infinitive | ye | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive |  | praises |  |  |  | unto God's name | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | praise |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הַֽ֭לְלוּ־יָהּ כִּי־ט֣וֹב יְהוָ֑ה זַמְּר֥וּ לִ֝שְׁמ֗וֹ כִּ֣י נָעִֽים׃

[Psalms 135:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.3/)

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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:2460` 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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