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title: 1 Chronicles 16:7 (JPS 1917) — Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto the LORD… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto the LORD, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren. Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 16:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 16:7 · JPS 1917

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Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto the LORD, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** ordain, give · **To what, where:** thanks

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This is 1 Chronicles 16:7 · 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 (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:628
# text = Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto the LORD, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ordain	ordain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Asaph	Asaph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **ordain** | past · do-support | David |  |  |  | then; day | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | thanks |  |  |  | unto the LORD; by the hand of Asaph and David's brethren | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |

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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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא אָ֣ז נָתַ֤ן דָּוִיד֙ בָּרֹ֔אשׁ לְהֹד֖וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה בְּיַד־אָסָ֖ף וְאֶחָֽיו׃פ

[1 Chronicles 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.7/)

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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:628` 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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