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title: 1 Chronicles 26:31 (JPS 1917) — In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 2 of 2

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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.

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**What happens:** seek, find · **To what, where:** David, mighty men, Jazer

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This is 1 Chronicles 26:31 · 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: 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:938
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Jazer	Jazer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **seek** | past · passive |  | David |  |  | year | for *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | mighty men of valour |  | Jazer of Gilead; there |  | among David | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at jazer=Asset |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.937/)
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.**

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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:938` 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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