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title: 1 Chronicles 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and David had upon him an ephod of linen. Who acts: Levites, David. 1 Chronicles 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# 1 Chronicles 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and David had upon him an ephod of linen.

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**Who acts:** Levites, David · **What happens:** clothe, bear, have · **To what, where:** David, ark, ephod

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This is 1 Chronicles 15:27 · 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, 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:619
# text = And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and David had upon him an ephod of linen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Levites	Levite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Chenaniah	Chenaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **clothe** | past · passive |  | David |  |  |  | with a robe of fine linen and all Levites and the singers and Chenaniah | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | all Levites and the singers and Chenaniah | the ark |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | David | a ephod of linen |  |  |  | upon LORD | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ephod=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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וְדָוִ֞יד מְכֻרְבָּ֣ל ׀ בִּמְעִ֣יל בּ֗וּץ וְכָל־הַלְוִיִּם֙ הַנֹּשְׂאִ֣ים אֶת־הָאָר֔וֹן וְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים וּכְנַנְיָ֛ה הַשַּׂ֥ר הַמַּשָּׂ֖א הַמְשֹֽׁרְרִ֑ים וְעַל־דָּוִ֖יד אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

[1 Chronicles 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.27/)

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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:619` 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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