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title: Psalms 53:7 (JPS 1917) — When God turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let… · tree and pragmatics
description: When God turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. Who acts: God, you, Jacob, Israel. Psalms 53:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 53:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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When God turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

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**Who acts:** God, you, Jacob, Israel · **What happens:** turn, let, rejoice, be · **To what, where:** captivity, Jacob, Israel

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This is Psalms 53:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, you, Jacob, Israel), 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:882
# text = When God turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turneth	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | God | the captivity of God's people |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent captivity=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Jacob |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |

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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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מִ֥י יִתֵּ֣ן מִצִּיּוֹן֮ יְשֻׁע֪וֹת יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל בְּשׁ֣וּב אֱ֭לֹהִים שְׁב֣וּת עַמּ֑וֹ יָגֵ֥ל יַ֝עֲקֹ֗ב יִשְׂמַ֥ח יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Psalms 53:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.53.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.881/)
2. **When God turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.**

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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:882` 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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