--- title: 1 Chronicles 22:2 (JPS 1917) — And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in th… · tree and pragmatics description: And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. Who acts: David, strangers. 1 Chronicles 22:2 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.786/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/22/) / [22:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.2/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 22:2 · JPS 1917 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. **Who acts:** David, strangers · **What happens:** command, gather, be, set, hew, wrought · **To what, where:** strangers, land, masons, wrought stones, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Chronicles 22:2 · 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, strangers), 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:786 # text = And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 masons mason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hew hew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 23 wrought wrought VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | David | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **gather** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | the strangers | | | | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the strangers | | | the land | | of Israel | tree rules | | 4 | **set** | past | David | masons | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mason=Result | | 5 | **hew** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | wrought stones | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | | 6 | **wrought** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **build** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | the house of God | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔יד לִכְנוֹס֙ אֶת־הַגֵּרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיַּעֲמֵ֣ד חֹֽצְבִ֗ים לַחְצוֹב֙ אַבְנֵ֣י גָזִ֔ית לִבְנ֖וֹת בֵּ֥ית הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ [1 Chronicles 22:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:786` 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 22:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.785/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 22:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.787/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 22:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.2/)