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title: 1 Chronicles 2:23 (JPS 1917) — And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. Who acts: Geshur. 1 Chronicles 2:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 2:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities.

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**Who acts:** Geshur · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** Havvoth jair

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This is 1 Chronicles 2:23 · 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: who acts (Geshur), 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:90
# text = And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Geshur	Geshur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Havvoth	Havvoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	jair	Jair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kenath	Kenath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **take** | past | Geshur and Aram | Havvoth jair |  |  |  | from cities *= city*; with Kenath and the villages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent jair=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּקַּ֣ח גְּשֽׁוּר־וַ֠אֲרָם אֶת־חַוֺּ֨ת יָאִ֧יר מֵאִתָּ֛ם אֶת־קְנָ֥ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים עִ֑יר כָּל־אֵ֕לֶּה בְּנֵ֖י מָכִ֥יר אֲבִי־גִלְעָֽד׃

[1 Chronicles 2:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities.**
2. [All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.91/)

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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:90` 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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