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title: 1 Chronicles 26:14 (JPS 1917) — Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. Who acts: lots, lot. 1 Chronicles 26:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 26:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

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**Who acts:** lots, lot · **What happens:** cast, come out · **To what, where:** lots

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This is 1 Chronicles 26:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (lots, lot), 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:920
# text = Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Zechariah	Zechariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	discreet	discreet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **cast** | past | lots *= lot* | lots |  |  | then | for Zechariah | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lot=Product for zechariah=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come out** | past | Shelemiah's lot |  |  |  |  | northward, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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וַיִּפֹּ֧ל הַגּוֹרָ֛ל מִזְרָ֖חָה לְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֑הוּ וּזְכַרְיָ֨הוּ בְנ֜וֹ יוֹעֵ֣ץ ׀ בְּשֶׂ֗כֶל הִפִּ֙ילוּ֙ גּֽוֹרָל֔וֹת וַיֵּצֵ֥א גוֹרָל֖וֹ צָפֽוֹנָה׃ס

[1 Chronicles 26:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.919/)
2. **Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.**

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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:920` 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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