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title: 1 Chronicles 21:4 (JPS 1917) — Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Who acts: word, king. 1 Chronicles 21:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 21:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.

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**Who acts:** word, king · **What happens:** prevail, word · **To what, where:** Joab

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This is 1 Chronicles 21:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (word, king), 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:753
# text = Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **prevail** | past | the king's word |  |  | Joab |  | nevertheless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against joab=Location |
| 2 | **word** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּדְבַר־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חָזַ֣ק עַל־יוֹאָ֑ב וַיֵּצֵ֣א יוֹאָ֗ב וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ֙ בְּכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיָּבֹ֖א יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[1 Chronicles 21:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.**
2. [Wherefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.754/)

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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:753` 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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