--- title: Psalms 135:20 (JPS 1917) — O house of Levi, bless ye the LORD; ye that fear the LORD, bless ye… · tree and pragmatics description: O house of Levi, bless ye the LORD; ye that fear the LORD, bless ye the LORD. Who acts: ye. Psalms 135:20 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.2477/) [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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/135/) / [135:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.20/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 135:20 · JPS 1917 O house of Levi, bless ye the LORD; ye that fear the LORD, bless ye the LORD. **Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** bless, fear · **To what, where:** LORD This is Psalms 135:20 · 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), 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:2477 # text = O house of Levi, bless ye the LORD; ye that fear the LORD, bless ye the LORD. 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Levi Levi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | infinitive | ye | the LORD | | | | house of Levi *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 2 | **fear** | present | | the LORD | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | | 3 | **bless** | infinitive | ye | the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | 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} בֵּ֣ית הַ֭לֵּוִי בָּרֲכ֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה יִֽרְאֵ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה בָּרֲכ֥וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [Psalms 135:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2477` 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 135:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2476/) - next →: [Psalms 135:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2478/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 135:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.20/)