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title: 1 Chronicles 11:6 (JPS 1917) — And David said: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chie… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.' And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief. Who acts: David, Joab. 1 Chronicles 11:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 11:6 · JPS 1917

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And David said: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.' And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

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**Who acts:** David, Joab · **What happens:** say, smite, be, go up, make · **To what, where:** Jebusites · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 11:6 · 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 (David, Joab), 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:478
# text = And David said: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.' And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
6	Whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	csubj	_	_
7	smiteth	smite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Jebusites	jebusite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
31	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smite** | present |  | the Jebusites |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jebusite=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | shall |  |  |  |  |  | chief *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go up** | past | Joab |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **make** | past · passive | Joab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | chief *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔יד כָּל־מַכֵּ֤ה יְבוּסִי֙ בָּרִ֣אשׁוֹנָ֔ה יִהְיֶ֥ה לְרֹ֖אשׁ וּלְשָׂ֑ר וַיַּ֧עַל בָּרִאשׁוֹנָ֛ה יוֹאָ֥ב בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֖ה וַיְהִ֥י לְרֹֽאשׁ׃

[1 Chronicles 11:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.6/)

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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:478` 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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