--- title: 1 Chronicles 15:26 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark o… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams. Who acts: ark, God, Levites, LORD. 1 Chronicles 15:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.618/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [1 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/) / [chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/15/) / [15:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.26/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 15:26 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams. **Who acts:** ark, God, Levites, LORD · **What happens:** come, pass, help, bear, sacrifice, covenant · **To what, where:** Levites, ark, seven bullocks This is 1 Chronicles 15:26 · 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 (ark, God, Levites, LORD), 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:618 # text = And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ark ark NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sacrificed sacrifice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 26 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 bullocks bullock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 rams ram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | ark | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | ark *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | past | God | | the Levites | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levite=Beneficiary | | 4 | **bear** | past | the Levites | the ark of the covenant of the LORD | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Patient | | 5 | **sacrifice** | past | Levites *= levite* | seven bullocks and seven rams | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme | | 6 | **covenant** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וַֽיְהִי֙ בֶּעְזֹ֣ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶ֨ת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נֹשְׂאֵ֖י אֲר֣וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּזְבְּח֥וּ שִׁבְעָֽה־פָרִ֖ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֵילִֽים׃ [1 Chronicles 15:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:618` 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 15:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.617/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 15:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.619/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 15:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.26/)