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title: 1 Chronicles 2:16 (JPS 1917) — And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. · tree and pragmatics
description: And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. 1 Chronicles 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 2:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sisters

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This is 1 Chronicles 2:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:82
# text = And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Abigail	Abigail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	.	.	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 | **is a** | past |  | Ozem's sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְאַחְיוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם צְרוּיָ֣ה וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִל וּבְנֵ֣י צְרוּיָ֗ה אַבְשַׁ֛י וְיוֹאָ֥ב וַעֲשָׂה־אֵ֖לעֲשָׂה־אֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

[1 Chronicles 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.**
2. [And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.83/)

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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:82` 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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