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title: The Book of Psalms is the Bible's song book: 150 songs and prayers,… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: The Book of Psalms is the Bible's song book: 150 songs and prayers, many linked with King David, still sung and prayed by Jews and Christians today. Who acts: Book, 150 songs. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 0

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The Book of Psalms is the Bible's song book: 150 songs and prayers, many linked with King David, still sung and prayed by Jews and Christians today.

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**Who acts:** Book, 150 songs · **What happens:** be, link, sing, pray · **To what, where:** song book, many, 150 songs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Book, 150 songs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:0
# text = The Book of Psalms is the Bible's song book: 150 songs and prayers, many linked with King David, still sung and prayed by Jews and Christians today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Psalms	psalm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
7	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	prayed	pray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl:agent	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Book of Psalms | the Bible's song book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **link** | participle · passive | 150 songs and prayers *not said here* | many |  |  |  | with King David | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with david=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | 150 songs and prayers *not said here* |  |  | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pray** | participle |  |  |  |  | today |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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