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title: 1 Chronicles 16:11 (JPS 1917) — Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually. · tree and pragmatics
description: Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually. Who acts: ye. 1 Chronicles 16:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 16:11 · JPS 1917

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Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** the, face

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This is 1 Chronicles 16:11 · 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 (ye), 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:632
# text = Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.
1	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	1	obj	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | infinitive | ye | the |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | LORD's face |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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דִּרְשׁ֤וּ יְהוָה֙ וְעֻזּ֔וֹ בַּקְּשׁ֥וּ פָנָ֖יו תָּמִֽיד׃

[1 Chronicles 16:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.11/)

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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:632` 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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