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title: 1 Chronicles 18:2 (JPS 1917) — And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and br… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents. Who acts: David, Moabites. 1 Chronicles 18:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 18:2 · JPS 1917

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And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.

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**Who acts:** David, Moabites · **What happens:** smite, become, bring · **To what, where:** Moab, servants, David, presents

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This is 1 Chronicles 18:2 · 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, Moabites), 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:695
# text = And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Moabites	moabite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **smite** | past | David | Moab |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus moab=Experiencer |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Moabites | servants | David |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the Moabites *not said here* | presents |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent present=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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וַיַּ֖ךְ אֶת־מוֹאָ֑ב וַיִּהְי֤וּ מוֹאָב֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְדָוִ֔יד נֹשְׂאֵ֖י מִנְחָֽה׃

[1 Chronicles 18:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.2/)

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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:695` 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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