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title: 1 Chronicles 23:1 (JPS 1917) — Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 23:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:1 · JPS 1917

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Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Solomon, Israel

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:1 · 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:805
# text = Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | past | David |  |  |  | now | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | David *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | David | Solomon |  | Israel |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Product |

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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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וְדָוִ֥יד זָקֵ֖ן וְשָׂבַ֣ע יָמִ֑ים וַיַּמְלֵ֛ךְ אֶת־שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[1 Chronicles 23:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.1/)

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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:805` 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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