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title: 1 Chronicles 23:3 (JPS 1917) — And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. Who acts: number, Levites. 1 Chronicles 23:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:3 · JPS 1917

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And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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**Who acts:** number, Levites · **What happens:** number, be, poll · **To what, where:** Levites, thirty thousand

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:3 · 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 (number, Levites), 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:807
# text = And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	polls	poll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **number** | past · passive |  | the Levites |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Levites's number by Levites's polls | thirty thousand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **poll** |  | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  |  | nom poll «cognition 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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וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִבֶּ֛ן שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה וַיְהִ֨י מִסְפָּרָ֤ם לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙ לִגְבָרִ֔ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וּשְׁמוֹנָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃

[1 Chronicles 23:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.3/)

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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:807` of Mova's parse database.

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