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title: 1 Chronicles 9:31 (JPS 1917) — And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were baked on griddles. Who acts: Mattithiah. 1 Chronicles 9:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 9:31 · JPS 1917

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And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were baked on griddles.

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**Who acts:** Mattithiah · **What happens:** be, have, set, bake · **To what, where:** firstborn, set office, things

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This is 1 Chronicles 9:31 · 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 (Mattithiah), 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:443
# text = And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were baked on griddles.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	Mattithiah	Mattithiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	firstborn	firstborn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Shallum	Shallum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Korahite	Korahite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	griddles	griddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | Mattithiah | the firstborn |  |  |  | of Shallum | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Mattithiah | the set office |  | the things |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bake** | past · passive |  | the things |  |  |  | on griddles | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on griddle=Instrument |

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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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וּמַתִּתְיָה֙ מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם ה֥וּא הַבְּכ֖וֹר לְשַׁלֻּ֣ם הַקָּרְחִ֑י בֶּאֱמוּנָ֕ה עַ֖ל מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַחֲבִתִּֽים׃

[1 Chronicles 9:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.31/)

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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:443` 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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