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title: Psalms 2:3 (JPS 1917) — 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' Who acts: us. Psalms 2:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 2:3 · JPS 1917

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'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'

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**Who acts:** us · **What happens:** let, break, cast away · **To what, where:** bands, cords

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This is Psalms 2:3 · 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 (us), 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:9
# text = 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	asunder	asunder	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | us |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | infinitive | us *not said here* | LORD's bands |  |  |  | asunder *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer band=Patient |
| 3 | **cast away** | infinitive | us *not said here* | LORD's cords |  |  |  | from us | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent cord=Product from we=Material |

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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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נְֽ֭נַתְּקָה אֶת־מֽוֹסְרוֹתֵ֑ימוֹ וְנַשְׁלִ֖יכָה מִמֶּ֣נּוּ עֲבֹתֵֽימוֹ׃

[Psalms 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.3/)

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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:9` 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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