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title: 1 Chronicles 7:28 (JPS 1917) — And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns the… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Chronicles 7:28 · JPS 1917

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And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Aiah and the towns thereof;

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**Who acts:** possessions, sons · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** Beth el

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This is 1 Chronicles 7:28 · 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 (possessions, 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:349
# text = And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Aiah and the towns thereof;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	habitations	habitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	el	el	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	Naaran	Naaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	Gezer	Gezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Aiah	Aiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
40	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	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 | sons's possessions and habitations | Beth el and the towns and Naaran and Gezer with the towns and Shechem unto Aiah and the towns and the towns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: 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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וַאֲחֻזָּתָם֙ וּמֹ֣שְׁבוֹתָ֔ם בֵּֽית־אֵ֖לבֵּֽית־אֵ֖ל וּבְנֹתֶ֑יהָ וְלַמִּזְרָ֣ח נַעֲרָ֔ן וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗ב גֶּ֤זֶר וּבְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ וּשְׁכֶ֣ם וּבְנֹתֶ֔יהָ עַד־עַיָּ֖ה וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃

[1 Chronicles 7:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.28/)

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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:349` 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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