--- title: Psalms 47:9 (JPS 1917) — God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne. · tree and pragmatics description: God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne. Who acts: God. Psalms 47:9 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.779/) [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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/47/) / [47:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.9/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 47:9 · JPS 1917 God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne. **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** reign, sit · **To what, where:** nations, holy throne This is Psalms 47:9 · 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), 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:779 # text = God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne. 1 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reigneth reign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sitteth sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reign** | present | God | | | the nations | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | present | God | | | God's holy throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location | 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} מָלַ֣ךְ אֱ֭לֹהִים עַל־גּוֹיִ֑ם אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים יָשַׁ֤ב ׀ עַל־כִּסֵּ֬א קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃ [Psalms 47:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:779` 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 47:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.778/) - next →: [Psalms 47:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.780/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 47:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.9/)