--- title: 1 Chronicles 7:16 (JPS 1917) — And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Pe… · tree and pragmatics description: And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. Who acts: Maacah, name, sons, Machir. 1 Chronicles 7:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.336/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [1 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/) / [chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/7/) / [7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.16/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 7:16 · JPS 1917 And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. **Who acts:** Maacah, name, sons, Machir · **What happens:** bear, call, be, name · **To what, where:** son, name, Sheresh, Ulam, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Chronicles 7:16 · 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 (Maacah, name, sons, Machir), 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:336 # text = And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Maacah Maacah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Machir Machir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 Peresh Peresh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 Sheresh Sheresh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 Ulam Ulam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Rekem Rekem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past | Maacah | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 2 | **call** | past | Maacah | Machir's name | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | past | the name of Machir's brother | Sheresh | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | Machir's sons | Ulam and Rekem | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | | Machir | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **name** | | | Machir's brother | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַתֵּ֨לֶד מַעֲכָ֤ה אֵֽשֶׁת־מָכִיר֙ בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֤א שְׁמוֹ֙ פֶּ֔רֶשׁ וְשֵׁ֥ם אָחִ֖יו שָׁ֑רֶשׁ וּבָנָ֖יו אוּלָ֥ם וָרָֽקֶם׃ [1 Chronicles 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:336` 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. - ← previous: [1 Chronicles 7:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.335/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 7:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.337/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.16/)