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title: Psalms 149:3 (JPS 1917) — Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp. Who acts: you, children, Israel. Psalms 149:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 149:3 · JPS 1917

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Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.

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**Who acts:** you, children, Israel · **What happens:** let, praise, sing, name · **To what, where:** children, name, dance, praises

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This is Psalms 149:3 · 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 (you, children, Israel), 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:2684
# text = Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	timbrel	timbrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | Israel's name |  | the dance |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | praises |  |  |  | unto Israel; with the timbrel and harp | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | 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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יְהַֽלְל֣וּ שְׁמ֣וֹ בְמָח֑וֹל בְּתֹ֥ף וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר יְזַמְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 149:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.3/)

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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:2684` 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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