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title: 1 Chronicles 21:30 (JPS 1917) — But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terri… · tree and pragmatics
description: But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 21:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 21:30 · JPS 1917

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But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** not go, inquire, be · **To what, where:** altar

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This is 1 Chronicles 21:30 · 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), 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:784
# text = But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | could | David |  |  | altar |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | David |  |  |  |  | because the sword of the angel of the LORD; terrified *property* | 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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וְלֹא־יָכֹ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד לָלֶ֥כֶת לְפָנָ֖יו לִדְרֹ֣שׁ אֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י נִבְעַ֔ת מִפְּנֵ֕י חֶ֖רֶב מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה׃ס

[1 Chronicles 21:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.30/)

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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:784` 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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