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title: 1 Chronicles 4:5 (JPS 1917) — And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. Who acts: Ashhur. 1 Chronicles 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 4:5 · JPS 1917

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And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

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**Who acts:** Ashhur · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** two wives

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This is 1 Chronicles 4:5 · 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 (Ashhur), 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:162
# text = And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Ashhur	Ashhur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tekoa	Tekoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Helah	Helah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Naarah	Naarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** | past | Ashhur | two wives |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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וּלְאַשְׁחוּר֙ אֲבִ֣י תְק֔וֹעַ הָי֖וּ שְׁתֵּ֣י נָשִׁ֑ים חֶלְאָ֖ה וְנַעֲרָֽה׃

[1 Chronicles 4:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.5/)

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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:162` 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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