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title: 1 Chronicles 8:40 (JPS 1917) — And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and had man… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. Who acts: sons. 1 Chronicles 8:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 8:40 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty.

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**Who acts:** sons · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** mighty men, many sons

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This is 1 Chronicles 8:40 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:407
# text = And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ulam	Ulam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | the sons of Ulam | mighty men |  |  |  | of valour | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the sons of Ulam *not said here* | many sons and sons's sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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וַֽיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־א֠וּלָם אֲנָשִׁ֨ים גִּבֹּרֵי־חַ֜יִל דֹּ֣רְכֵי קֶ֗שֶׁת וּמַרְבִּ֤ים בָּנִים֙ וּבְנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים מֵאָ֖ה וַחֲמִשִּׁ֑ים כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה מִבְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִֽן׃פ

[1 Chronicles 8:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.40/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty.**
2. [All these were of the sons of Benjamin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.408/)

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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:407` of Mova's parse database.

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