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title: 1 Chronicles 21:3 (JPS 1917) — And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many mor… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Chronicles 21:3 · JPS 1917

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And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'

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**Who acts:** Joab, LORD · **What happens:** say, make, not be, require, be · **To what, where:** more, people, servants, thing, cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 21:3 · 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 (Joab, LORD), 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:752
# text = And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	vocative	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
37	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
38	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
42	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
45	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joab |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | present | the LORD | more | LORD's people |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset people=Beneficiary more=Product |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Joab | my lord's servants |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **require** | present · do-support | my lord | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Precondition |
| 5 | **is a** | future | LORD | a cause |  |  |  | of guilt; unto Israel | 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יוֹאָ֗ב יוֹסֵף֩ יְהוָ֨ה עַל־עַמּ֤וֹ ׀ כָּהֵם֙ מֵאָ֣ה פְעָמִ֔ים הֲלֹא֙ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כֻּלָּ֥ם לַאדֹנִ֖י לַעֲבָדִ֑ים לָ֣מָּה יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ זֹאת֙ אֲדֹנִ֔י לָ֛מָּה יִהְיֶ֥ה לְאַשְׁמָ֖ה לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[1 Chronicles 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.3/)

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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:752` 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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