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title: 1 Chronicles 23:4 (JPS 1917) — Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges; Who acts: twenty thousand, six thousand, house. 1 Chronicles 23:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:4 · JPS 1917

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Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;

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**Who acts:** twenty thousand, six thousand, house · **What happens:** oversee, be, work · **To what, where:** work, officers

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:4 · 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 (twenty thousand, six thousand, house), 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:808
# text = Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	oversee	oversee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	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 | **oversee** | past | twenty thousand | the work of the house of the LORD |  |  |  | of these | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | six thousand | officers and judges |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | the house of the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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מֵאֵ֗לֶּה לְנַצֵּ֙חַ֙ עַל־מְלֶ֣אכֶת בֵּית־יְהוָ֔ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָ֑לֶף וְשֹׁטְרִ֥ים וְשֹׁפְטִ֖ים שֵׁ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִֽים׃

[1 Chronicles 23:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.4/)

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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:808` 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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