1 Chronicles 15:2 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א

Who acts: David, LORD · What happens: say, carry, choose, minister · To what, where: ark · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 1 Chronicles 15:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — David, LORD — and what happens in the verse to ark, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 29 chapters of 1 Chronicles on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

אָ֚ז אָמַ֣ר דָּוִ֔יד לֹ֤א לָשֵׂאת֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים כִּ֖י אִם־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם כִּי־בָ֣ם ׀ בָּחַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לָשֵׂ֞את אֶת־אֲר֧וֹן יְהוָ֛ה וּֽלְשָׁרְת֖וֹ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃ס

Then David said: 'None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of the LORD, and to minister unto Him for ever.'

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	אָ֚ז	אָז	ADV	_	2 אָמַ֣ר	advmod	then
2	אָמַ֣ר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	דָּוִ֔יד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	2 אָמַ֣ר	nsubj	David
4	לֹ֤א	לֹא	ADV	_	2 אָמַ֣ר	ccomp	not
5	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	6 שֵׂאת֙	case	to
6	שֵׂאת֙	נָשָׂא	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	4 לֹ֤א	advcl	carry
7	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	8 אֲר֣וֹן	case	(et)
8	אֲר֣וֹן	אֲרוֹן	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 שֵׂאת֙	obj	the ark
9	הָֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 אֱלֹהִ֔ים	det	of (the)
10	אֱלֹהִ֔ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 אֲר֣וֹן	compound:smixut	God
11	כִּ֖י	כִּי	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 לְוִיִּ֑ם	mark	(dm)
12	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	11 כִּ֖י	fixed	(if)
13	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 לְוִיִּ֑ם	det	the
14	לְוִיִּ֑ם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 לֹ֤א	parataxis	Levites
15	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	19 בָּחַ֣ר	mark	(dm)
16	ב	בְּ	ADP	_	17 ָ֣ם	case	(in)
17	ָ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 בָּחַ֣ר	obl	them
18	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	17 ָ֣ם	punct
19	בָּחַ֣ר	בָּחַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	4 לֹ֤א	advcl	he had chosen
20	יְהוָ֗ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	19 בָּחַ֣ר	nsubj	Yahweh
21	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	22 שֵׂ֞את	case	to
22	שֵׂ֞את	נָשָׂא	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	19 בָּחַ֣ר	xcomp	carry
23	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	24 אֲר֧וֹן	case	(et)
24	אֲר֧וֹן	אֲרוֹן	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 שֵׂ֞את	obj	the ark
25	יְהוָ֛ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	24 אֲר֧וֹן	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
26	וּֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 שָׁרְת	cc	and
27	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	28 שָׁרְת	case	to
28	שָׁרְת	שָׁרַת	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	22 שֵׂ֞את	conj	serve
29	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 שָׁרְת	obj	him
30	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	31 עוֹלָֽם	case	until
31	עוֹלָֽם	עוֹלָם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	28 שָׁרְת	obl	perpetuity
32	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	31 עוֹלָֽם	punct
33	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	31 עוֹלָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not אָמַר he said	qatal · qal	דָּוִיד David
שֵׂאת carry	infinitive construct · qal		אֲרוֹן the ark
בָּחַר he had chosen	qatal · qal	יְהוָה Yahweh
שֵׂאת carry	infinitive construct · qal	לְוִיִּם Levites	אֲרוֹן the ark
שָׁרְת serve	infinitive construct · piel	לְוִיִּם Levites	וֹ him

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Then David said: 'None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of the LORD, and to minister unto Him for ever.'

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:1CH:541.

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