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title: 1 Chronicles 23:5 (JPS 1917) — and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LO… · tree and pragmatics
description: and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.' Who acts: four thousand, I, instruments. 1 Chronicles 23:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:5 · JPS 1917

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and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'

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**Who acts:** four thousand, I, instruments · **What happens:** be, praise, make · **To what, where:** doorkeepers, LORD, instruments

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:5 · 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 (four thousand, I, instruments), 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:809
# text = and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	doorkeepers	doorkeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	'	'	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | four thousand | doorkeepers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | past | four thousand | the LORD |  |  |  | with the instruments | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | I | the instruments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **praise** | to-infinitive | the instruments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וְאַרְבַּ֥עַת אֲלָפִ֖ים שֹׁעֲרִ֑ים וְאַרְבַּ֤עַת אֲלָפִים֙ מְהַֽלְלִ֣ים לַיהוָ֔ה בַּכֵּלִ֕ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִׂ֖יתִי לְהַלֵּֽל׃

[1 Chronicles 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.5/)

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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:809` 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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