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title: 1 Chronicles 27:24 (JPS 1917) — Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there… · tree and pragmatics
description: Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David. Who acts: Joab, wrath. 1 Chronicles 27:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 27:24 · JPS 1917

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Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

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**Who acts:** Joab, wrath · **What happens:** begin, number, not finish, come, put, chronicle · **To what, where:** Israel, number, account, David

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This is 1 Chronicles 27:24 · 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 (Joab, wrath), 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:964
# text = Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
1	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:desc	_	_
36	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **begin** | past | Joab |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **number** | to-infinitive | Joab *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **finish** | past | Joab *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** | past | wrath for this |  |  | Israel; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon israel=Location |
| 5 | **put** | past · passive |  | the number |  | the account |  | in the chronicles of David  king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chronicle=Destination |
| 6 | **chronicle** |  |  | David  king |  |  |  |  | nom chronicle «communication transitive»: of=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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יוֹאָ֨ב בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֜ה הֵחֵ֤ל לִמְנוֹת֙ וְלֹ֣א כִלָּ֔ה וַיְהִ֥י בָזֹ֛את קֶ֖צֶף עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֤א עָלָה֙ הַמִּסְפָּ֔ר בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר דִּבְרֵֽי־הַיָּמִ֖ים לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ דָּוִֽיד׃ס

[1 Chronicles 27:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.24/)

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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:964` 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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