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title: 1 Chronicles 25:8 (JPS 1917) — And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. Who acts: Heman. 1 Chronicles 25:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 25:8 · JPS 1917

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And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

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**Who acts:** Heman · **What happens:** cast · **To what, where:** lots

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This is 1 Chronicles 25:8 · 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 (Heman), 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:882
# text = And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	as	as	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	as	as	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cast** | past | Heman | lots |  |  |  | ward against ward *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product |

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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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וַיַּפִּ֜ילוּ גּוֹרָל֣וֹת מִשְׁמֶ֗רֶת לְעֻמַּת֙ כַּקָּטֹ֣ן כַּגָּד֔וֹל מֵבִ֖ין עִם־תַּלְמִֽיד׃פ

[1 Chronicles 25:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.25.8/)

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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:882` 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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