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title: 1 Chronicles 12:33 (JPS 1917) — And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment. Who acts: men, Israel, heads, brethren. 1 Chronicles 12:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# 1 Chronicles 12:33 · JPS 1917

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And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

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**Who acts:** men, Israel, heads, brethren · **What happens:** have, know, do, be, understand · **To what, where:** understanding, two hundred, commandment, times · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 12:33 · 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, Israel, heads, brethren), 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:553
# text = And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Issachar	Issachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | men | understanding of the times |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | ought | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the heads of children | two hundred and brethren's commandment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | children's brethren |  |  | brethren's commandment |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **understand** |  |  | the times |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּמִבְּנֵ֣י יִשָּׂשכָ֗ר יוֹדְעֵ֤י בִינָה֙ לַֽעִתִּ֔ים לָדַ֖עַת מַה־יַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל רָאשֵׁיהֶ֣ם מָאתַ֔יִם וְכָל־אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם עַל־פִּיהֶֽם׃ס

[1 Chronicles 12:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.33/)

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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:553` 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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