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title: Psalms 47:8 (JPS 1917) — For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful s… · tree and pragmatics
description: For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful song. Who acts: God, ye. Psalms 47:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 47:8 · JPS 1917

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For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful song.

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**Who acts:** God, ye · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** King, praises, skilful song

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This is Psalms 47:8 · 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 (God, 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:778
# text = For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful song.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
13	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | God | the King |  |  |  | of all earth | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | ye | praises |  | a skilful song |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |

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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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כִּ֤י מֶ֖לֶךְ כָּל־הָאָ֥רֶץ אֱלֹהִ֗ים זַמְּר֥וּ מַשְׂכִּֽיל׃

[Psalms 47:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.8/)

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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:778` 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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