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title: 1 Chronicles 18:5 (JPS 1917) — And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men. Who acts: Arameans, David. 1 Chronicles 18:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 18:5 · JPS 1917

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And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.

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**Who acts:** Arameans, David · **What happens:** come, succour, smote · **To what, where:** Hadarezer king, two men

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This is 1 Chronicles 18:5 · 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 (Arameans, 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:698
# text = And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Arameans	aramean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	succour	succour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	Hadarezer	Hadarezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Zobah	Zobah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	smote	smote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Arameans	aramean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **come** | past | the Arameans of Damascus |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **succour** | to-infinitive | the Arameans of Damascus *not said here* | Hadarezer king of Zobah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smote** | past | David | two men |  |  |  | of the Arameans | 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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וַיָּבֹא֙ אֲרַ֣מ דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂק אֲרַ֣מ דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂק לַעְז֕וֹר לַהֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ צוֹבָ֑ה וַיַּ֤ךְ דָּוִיד֙ בַּאֲרָ֔ם עֶשְׂרִֽים־וּשְׁנַ֥יִם אֶ֖לֶף אִֽישׁ׃

[1 Chronicles 18:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.5/)

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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:698` 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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