--- title: Psalms 40:17 (JPS 1917) — Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such a… · tree and pragmatics description: Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such as love Thy salvation say continually: 'The LORD be magnified.' Who acts: you, those, love, Thy. 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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, those, love, Thy), 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:671 # text = Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such as love Thy salvation say continually: 'The LORD be magnified.' 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 3 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seek seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 rejoice rejoice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 17 det _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 love love PRON NN _ 14 nsubj _ _ 18 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 21 continually continually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seek** | present | | Thee | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive | those | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | those *not said here* | | | Thee | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | love | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | love *not said here* | | | | | continually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **magnify** | infinitive · passive | | the LORD | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **salve** | | Thy | | | | | | nom salvation «act transitive»: 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} יָ֘שִׂ֤ישׂוּ וְיִשְׂמְח֨וּ ׀ בְּךָ֗ כָּֽל־מְבַ֫קְשֶׁ֥יךָ יֹאמְר֣וּ תָ֭מִיד יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה אֹֽ֝הֲבֵ֗י תְּשׁוּעָתֶֽךָ׃ [Psalms 40:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:671` 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 40:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.670/) - next →: [Psalms 40:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.672/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 40:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.17/)