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title: 1 Chronicles 16:19 (JPS 1917) — When ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners… · tree and pragmatics
description: When ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it, Who acts: ye. 1 Chronicles 16:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 16:19 · JPS 1917

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When ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it,

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** few men, number

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This is 1 Chronicles 16:19 · 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:640
# text = When ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it,
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	but	but	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sojourners	sojourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ye | a few men |  | number |  | but *property* | tree rules |

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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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בִּֽהְיֽוֹתְכֶם֙ מְתֵ֣י מִסְפָּ֔ר כִּמְעַ֖ט וְגָרִ֥ים בָּֽהּ׃

[1 Chronicles 16:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.19/)

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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:640` 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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