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title: 1 Chronicles 23:27 (JPS 1917) — For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered f… · tree and pragmatics
description: For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward. Who acts: last ordinances. 1 Chronicles 23:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 23:27 · JPS 1917

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For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

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**Who acts:** last ordinances · **What happens:** number, ordain · **To what, where:** sons, old, David

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This is 1 Chronicles 23:27 · 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 (last ordinances), 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:835
# text = For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 last ordinances of David | the sons of Levi |  | old |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ordain** |  |  | David |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כִּ֣י בְדִבְרֵ֤י דָוִיד֙ הָאַ֣חֲרֹנִ֔ים הֵ֖מָּה מִסְפַּ֣ר בְּנֵי־לֵוִ֑י מִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וּלְמָֽעְלָה׃

[1 Chronicles 23:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.27/)

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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:835` 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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