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title: 1 Chronicles 23:6 (JPS 1917) — And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: G… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 23:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:6 · JPS 1917

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And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** divide, accord · **To what, where:** instruments, courses

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:6 · 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:810
# text = And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Gershon	Gershon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Kohath	Kohath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **divide** | past | David | instruments *= instrument* |  | courses |  | accord the sons of Levi | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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וַיֶּֽחָלְקֵ֥ם דָּוִ֖יד מַחְלְק֑וֹתס לִבְנֵ֣י לֵוִ֔י לְגֵרְשׁ֖וֹן קְהָ֥ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃ס

[1 Chronicles 23:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.6/)

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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:810` 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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