--- title: 1 Chronicles 15:16 (JPS 1917) — And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethre… · tree and pragmatics description: And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. 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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), 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:608 # text = And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 appoint appoint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 iobj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 psalteries psaltery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 harps harp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 cymbals cymbal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 sounding sound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 29 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | David | | | | | to the chief of the Levites | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent | | 2 | **appoint** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | the singers | Levites's brethren | | | with instruments of music and psalteries and harps and cymbals | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Theme singer=Attribute | | 3 | **sound** | gerund | David *not said here* | | | | | aloud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **lift up** | gerund | David *not said here* | the voice | | | | with joy | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִיד֮ לְשָׂרֵ֣י הַלְוִיִּם֒ לְהַֽעֲמִ֗יד אֶת־אֲחֵיהֶם֙ הַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים בִּכְלֵי־שִׁ֛יר נְבָלִ֥ים וְכִנֹּר֖וֹת וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם מַשְׁמִיעִ֥ים לְהָרִֽים־בְּק֖וֹל לְשִׂמְחָֽה׃פ [1 Chronicles 15:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:608` 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. - ← previous: [1 Chronicles 15:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.607/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 15:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.609/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 15:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.16/)