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title: 1 Chronicles 26:31 (JPS 1917) — Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, acc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses. 1 Chronicles 26:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 26:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses.

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

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This is 1 Chronicles 26:31 · 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:937
# text = Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hebronites	hebronite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Jerijah	Jerijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hebronites	hebronite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	according	accord	ADP	VBG	_	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	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 |  | Jerijah |  |  | accord Hebronites's generations by fathers's houses | of the Hebronites; of the Hebronites | 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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לַֽחֶבְרוֹנִי֙ יְרִיָּ֣ה הָרֹ֔אשׁ לַֽחֶבְרוֹנִ֥י לְתֹלְדֹתָ֖יו לְאָב֑וֹת בִּשְׁנַ֨ת הָֽאַרְבָּעִ֜ים לְמַלְכ֤וּת דָּוִיד֙ נִדְרָ֔שׁוּ וַיִּמָּצֵ֥א בָהֶ֛ם גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי חַ֖יִל בְּיַעְזֵ֥יר גִּלְעָֽד׃

[1 Chronicles 26:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses.**
2. [In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.938/)

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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:937` 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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