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title: Psalms 33:3 (JPS 1917) — Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy. · tree and pragmatics
description: Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy. Who acts: you. Psalms 33:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 33:3 · JPS 1917

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Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sing, play, shout · **To what, where:** new song, joy

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This is Psalms 33:3 · 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), 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:486
# text = Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy.
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shouts	shout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | a new song |  |  |  | unto Him *= he* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amid shouts of joy; skilfully *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שִֽׁירוּ־ל֭וֹשִׁ֣יר חָדָ֑שׁ הֵיטִ֥יבוּ נַ֝גֵּ֗ן בִּתְרוּעָֽה׃

[Psalms 33:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.3/)

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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:486` 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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