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title: Psalms 2:2 (JPS 1917) — The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel togethe… · tree and pragmatics
description: The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed: Who acts: kings, rulers. Psalms 2:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 2:2 · JPS 1917

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The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed:

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**Who acts:** kings, rulers · **What happens:** stand up, take · **To what, where:** counsel

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This is Psalms 2:2 · 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 (kings, rulers), 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:8
# text = The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	anointed	anoint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	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 | **stand up** | present | the kings of the earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present | the rulers | counsel |  |  |  | against the LORD and His anointed; together *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme against lord=Destination |

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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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יִ֥תְיַצְּב֨וּ ׀ מַלְכֵי־אֶ֗רֶץ וְרוֹזְנִ֥ים נֽוֹסְדוּ־יָ֑חַד עַל־יְ֝הוָה וְעַל־מְשִׁיחֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 2:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.2/)

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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:8` 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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