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title: 1 Chronicles 13:3 (JPS 1917) — and let us bring back the ark of our God to us; for we sought not un… · tree and pragmatics
description: and let us bring back the ark of our God to us; for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.' Who acts: you, us, we. 1 Chronicles 13:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 13:3 · JPS 1917

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and let us bring back the ark of our God to us; for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.'

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**Who acts:** you, us, we · **What happens:** let, bring back, not seek · **To what, where:** us, ark

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This is 1 Chronicles 13:3 · 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 (you, us, 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:564
# text = and let us bring back the ark of our God to us; for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring back** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the ark of our God | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ark=Theme to we=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **seek** | past | we |  |  |  | day | unto ark | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְנָסֵ֛בָּה אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ אֵלֵ֑ינוּ כִּי־לֹ֥א דְרַשְׁנֻ֖הוּ בִּימֵ֥י שָׁאֽוּל׃

[1 Chronicles 13:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.13.3/)

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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:564` 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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