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title: 1 Chronicles 11:2 (JPS 1917) — In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that didst lead… · tree and pragmatics
description: In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD thy God said unto thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over My people Israel.' Who acts: Saul, LORD, Thou. 1 Chronicles 11:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# 1 Chronicles 11:2 · JPS 1917

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In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD thy God said unto thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over My people Israel.'

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**Who acts:** Saul, LORD, Thou · **What happens:** be, lead out, bring in, say, feed · **To what, where:** king, thou, Israel, people, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 11:2 · 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 (Saul, LORD, Thou), 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:474
# text = In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD thy God said unto thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over My people Israel.'
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
3	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
35	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
41	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 | Saul | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | thou |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead out** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **bring in** | infinitive |  | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme israel=Asset |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **feed** | shall | Thou |  | My people |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** | shall | thou | prince |  |  |  | over My people | 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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גַּם־תְּמ֣וֹל גַּם־שִׁלְשׁ֗וֹם גַּ֚ם בִּהְי֣וֹת שָׁא֣וּל מֶ֔לֶךְ אַתָּ֛ה הַמּוֹצִ֥יא וְהַמֵּבִ֖יא אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֹּאמֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ לְךָ֗ אַתָּ֨ה תִרְעֶ֤ה אֶת־עַמִּי֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאַתָּה֙ תִּהְיֶ֣ה נָגִ֔יד עַ֖ל עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[1 Chronicles 11:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.2/)

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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:474` 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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