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title: 1 Chronicles 16:8 (JPS 1917) — O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doin… · tree and pragmatics
description: O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples. Who acts: you, David. 1 Chronicles 16:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 16:8 · JPS 1917

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O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.

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**Who acts:** you, David · **What happens:** give, call, make, name · **To what, where:** thanks, doings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 16:8 · 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 (you, 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:629
# text = O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	known	known	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | thanks |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon David's name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | David's doings |  |  |  | among the peoples; known *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doing=Product |
| 4 | **name** |  | David |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הוֹד֤וּ לַֽיהוָה֙ קִרְא֣וּ בִשְׁמ֔וֹ הוֹדִ֥יעוּ בָעַמִּ֖ים עֲלִילֹתָֽיו׃

[1 Chronicles 16:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.8/)

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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:629` 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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