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title: 1 Chronicles 11:1 (JPS 1917) — Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying: 'B… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying: 'Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Who acts: Israel, we. 1 Chronicles 11:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 11:1 · JPS 1917

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Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying: 'Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

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**Who acts:** Israel, we · **What happens:** gather, say, be · **To what, where:** themselves, David, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 11:1 · 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 (Israel, we), 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:473
# text = Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying: 'Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | all Israel | themselves *= they* | David |  | then | unto Hebron | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to david=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | all Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | we | thy bone and thy flesh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּקָּבְצ֧וּ כָֽל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל־דָּוִ֖יד חֶבְר֣וֹנָה לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֛ה עַצְמְךָ֥ וּֽבְשָׂרְךָ֖ אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

[1 Chronicles 11:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.1/)

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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:473` 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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