--- title: 2 Chronicles 29:25 (JPS 1917) — And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with p… · tree and pragmatics description: And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by His prophets. 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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 (king, commandment), 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:2CH:666 # text = And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by His prophets. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Levites Levite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 cymbals cymbal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 psalteries psaltery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 harps harp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 according accord ADP VBG _ 25 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Gad Gad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 seer seer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Nathan Nathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 42 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | king | the Levites | | the house of the LORD | | with cymbals and psalteries and harps; accord the commandment of David and Gad and the king's seer and Nathan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent levite=Theme in house=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | the commandment | | | | | of the LORD; by king's prophets | tree rules | | 3 | **command** | | | David | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיַּֽעֲמֵ֨ד אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֜ם בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֗ה בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙ בִּנְבָלִ֣ים וּבְכִנֹּר֔וֹת בְּמִצְוַ֥ת דָּוִ֛יד וְגָ֥ד חֹזֵֽה־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְנָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֑יא כִּ֧י בְיַד־יְהוָ֛ה הַמִּצְוָ֖ה בְּיַד־נְבִיאָֽיו׃ס [2 Chronicles 29:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:666` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 29:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.665/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 29:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.667/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 29:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.25/)