--- title: Psalms 137:4 (JPS 1917) — How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? · tree and pragmatics description: How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? Who acts: we, LORD. Psalms 137:4 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.2508/) [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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/137/) / [137:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.4/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 137:4 · JPS 1917 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? **Who acts:** we, LORD · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** song, foreign land This is Psalms 137:4 · 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 (we, LORD), 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:2508 # text = How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 'S 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | shall | we | the LORD's song | | a foreign land | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 2 | **sing** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָ֑ה עַ֝֗ל אַדְמַ֥ת נֵכָֽר׃ [Psalms 137:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2508` 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 137:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2507/) - next →: [Psalms 137:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2509/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 137:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.4/)