--- title: 1 Chronicles 21:5 (JPS 1917) — And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. · tree and pragmatics description: And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. Who acts: Joab. 1 Chronicles 21:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.755/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [1 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/21/) / [21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.5/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 21:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. **Who acts:** Joab · **What happens:** give up, sum, number · **To what, where:** sum, numbering, people This is 1 Chronicles 21:5 · 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 (Joab), 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:755 # text = And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Joab Joab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 numbering numbering NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 unto unto ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | Joab | the sum of the numbering of the people unto David | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Source | | 2 | **sum** | | | the numbering of the people unto David | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | | 3 | **number** | | | the people unto David | | | | | nom numbering «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיִּתֵּ֥ן יוֹאָ֛ב אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר מִפְקַד־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־דָּוִ֑יד וַיְהִ֣י כָֽל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל אֶ֣לֶף אֲלָפִים֩ וּמֵאָ֨ה אֶ֤לֶף אִישׁ֙ שֹׁ֣לֵֽף חֶ֔רֶב וִֽיהוּדָ֕ה אַרְבַּע֩ מֵא֨וֹת וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב׃ [1 Chronicles 21:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.5/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David.** 2. [And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred three-score and ten thousand men that drew sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.756/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:755` 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. - ← previous: [1 Chronicles 21:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.754/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 21:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.756/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.5/)