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title: 1 Chronicles 5:21 (JPS 1917) — And they took away their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they took away their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand; and of souls of men a hundred thousand. Who acts: sons. 1 Chronicles 5:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 5:21 · JPS 1917

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And they took away their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand; and of souls of men a hundred thousand.

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**Who acts:** sons · **What happens:** take away · **To what, where:** cattle

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This is 1 Chronicles 5:21 · 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 (sons), 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:228
# text = And they took away their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand; and of souls of men a hundred thousand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	_
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take away** | past | sons *= son* | sons's cattle |  |  |  | of sons's camels and sheep and asses and souls of men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme of camel=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּשְׁבּ֣וּ מִקְנֵיהֶ֗ם גְּֽמַלֵּיהֶ֞ם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ וְצֹ֗אן מָאתַ֤יִם וַחֲמִשִּׁים֙ אֶ֔לֶף וַחֲמוֹרִ֖ים אַלְפָּ֑יִם וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ אָדָ֖ם מֵ֥אָה אָֽלֶף׃

[1 Chronicles 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.21/)

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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:228` 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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