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title: 1 Chronicles 8:28 (JPS 1917) — These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men; these dwelt in Jerusalem. Who acts: These. 1 Chronicles 8:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 8:28 · JPS 1917

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These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men; these dwelt in Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** be, dwell · **To what, where:** heads, Jerusalem

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This is 1 Chronicles 8:28 · 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 (These), 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:393
# text = These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men; these dwelt in Jerusalem.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	'	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | These | heads |  |  | throughout houses's generations | of fathers's houses | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | these |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jerusalem=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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אֵ֣לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י אָב֛וֹת לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֖ם רָאשִׁ֑ים אֵ֖לֶּה יָשְׁב֥וּ בִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

[1 Chronicles 8:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.28/)

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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:393` 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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