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title: 1 Chronicles 29:29 (JPS 1917) — Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are wri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer; Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 29:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 29:29 · JPS 1917

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Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer;

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** write, act, word · **To what, where:** acts, words, Samuel, Nathan, Gad

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This is 1 Chronicles 29:29 · 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 (David), 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:1CH:1028
# text = Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer;
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	dislocated	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	last	last	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | acts *= act* |  | the words of Samuel and the words of Nathan and the words of Gad | now | the acts of David *dislocated* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in word=Destination |
| 2 | **act** |  | David |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | Samuel |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | Nathan |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְדִבְרֵי֙ דָּוִ֣יד הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים וְהָאֲחרֹנִ֑ים הִנָּ֣ם כְּתוּבִ֗ים עַל־דִּבְרֵי֙ שְׁמוּאֵ֣ל הָרֹאֶ֔ה וְעַל־דִּבְרֵי֙ נָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֔יא וְעַל־דִּבְרֵ֖י גָּ֥ד הַחֹזֶֽה׃

[1 Chronicles 29:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.29/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:1028` 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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