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title: 1 Chronicles 15:17 (JPS 1917) — So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; Who acts: Levites. 1 Chronicles 15:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 15:17 · JPS 1917

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So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

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**Who acts:** Levites · **What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** Heman

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This is 1 Chronicles 15:17 · 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 (Levites), 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:609
# text = So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Heman	Heman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Joel	Joel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Asaph	Asaph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Berechiah	Berechiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Kushaiah	Kushaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 | **appoint** | past | the Levites | Heman and Asaph and the sons of Merari |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent heman=Theme brethren=Attribute |

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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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וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֵ֚ת הֵימָ֣ן בֶּן־יוֹאֵ֔ל וּמִ֨ן־אֶחָ֔יו אָסָ֖ף בֶּן־בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּס וּמִן־בְּנֵ֤י מְרָרִי֙ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם אֵיתָ֖ן בֶּן־קֽוּשָׁיָֽהוּ׃

[1 Chronicles 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.17/)

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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:609` 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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