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title: 1 Chronicles 4:23 (JPS 1917) — These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work. Who acts: These, records, king. 1 Chronicles 4:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 4:23 · JPS 1917

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These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.

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**Who acts:** These, records, king · **What happens:** be, dwell, work · **To what, where:** potters, plantations

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This is 1 Chronicles 4:23 · 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 (These, records, king), 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:185
# text = These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	potters	potter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | past | These | the potters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | past |  |  |  | plantations and hedges |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among plantation=Location |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | records *= record* |  |  | there |  | occupied *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **work** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הֵ֚מָּה הַיּ֣וֹצְרִ֔ים וְיֹשְׁבֵ֥י נְטָעִ֖ים וּגְדֵרָ֑ה עִם־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ בִּמְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ יָ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃ס

[1 Chronicles 4:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.23/)

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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:185` 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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