1 Chronicles 21:30 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א

Who acts: David · What happens: not go, inquire, be · To what, where: altar

This is 1 Chronicles 21:30 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 — and what happens in the verse to altar, 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.

וְלֹא־יָכֹ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד לָלֶ֥כֶת לְפָנָ֖יו לִדְרֹ֣שׁ אֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י נִבְעַ֔ת מִפְּנֵ֕י חֶ֖רֶב מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה׃ס

But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	3 יָכֹ֥ל	cc	and
2	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	3 יָכֹ֥ל	advmod	not
3	יָכֹ֥ל	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he was able
4	דָּוִ֛יד	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	3 יָכֹ֥ל	nsubj	David
5	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	6 לֶ֥כֶת	case	to
6	לֶ֥כֶת	הלך	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	3 יָכֹ֥ל	xcomp	go
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	8 פָנָ֖י	case	before
8	פָנָ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 לֶ֥כֶת	obl
9	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 פָנָ֖י	nmod:poss	it
10	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	11 דְרֹ֣שׁ	case	to
11	דְרֹ֣שׁ	דָּרַשׁ	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	6 לֶ֥כֶת	advcl	seek
12	אֱלֹהִ֑ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	11 דְרֹ֣שׁ	obj	God
13	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	14 נִבְעַ֔ת	mark	(dm)
14	נִבְעַ֔ת	בָּעַת	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	3 יָכֹ֥ל	advcl	he was terrified
15	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	16 פְּנֵ֕י	case	of
16	פְּנֵ֕י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 נִבְעַ֔ת	obl
17	חֶ֖רֶב	חֶרֶב	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	16 פְּנֵ֕י	compound:smixut	the sword
18	מַלְאַ֥ךְ	מַלְאָךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 חֶ֖רֶב	compound:smixut	of the angel
19	יְהוָֽה	יהוה	PROPN	_	18 מַלְאַ֥ךְ	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	19 יְהוָֽה	punct
21	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	19 יְהוָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not יָכֹל he was able	qatal · qal	דָּוִיד David
לֶכֶת go	infinitive construct · qal	דָּוִיד David
דְרֹשׁ seek	infinitive construct · qal	דָּוִיד David	אֱלֹהִים God
נִבְעַת he was terrified	qatal · niphal	דָּוִיד David

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.

But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was terrified because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

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:712.

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