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title: 1 Chronicles 12:2 (JPS 1917) — They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. Who acts: men. 1 Chronicles 12:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 12:2 · JPS 1917

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They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** be, use, sling, shoot · **To what, where:** right hand, stones, arrows, bow

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This is 1 Chronicles 12:2 · 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 (men), 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:522
# text = They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	slinging	sling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | with bows; armed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | could | men *= man* *not said here* | the right hand and the left |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **sling** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | stones |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | arrows |  | the bow |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from bow=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | of Saul's brethren; of Benjamin | 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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נֹ֣שְׁקֵי קֶ֗שֶׁת מַיְמִינִ֤ים וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙ בָּֽאֲבָנִ֔ים וּבַחִצִּ֖ים בַּקָּ֑שֶׁת מֵאֲחֵ֥י שָׁא֖וּל מִבִּנְיָמִֽן׃

[1 Chronicles 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.2/)

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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:522` 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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