1 Chronicles 15:2 · JPS 1917
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.'
Who acts: David, LORD · What happens: say, carry, choose, minister · To what, where: ark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Chronicles 15:2 · 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 (David, LORD), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
| 6 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 ought | nsubj |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ark | det |
| 11 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ark | nmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 Levites | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Levites | det |
| 16 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 None | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 chosen | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 chosen | obl |
| 20 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 chosen | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 LORD | det |
| 22 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 chosen | nsubj |
| 23 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 chosen | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ark | det |
| 27 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carry | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 LORD | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 LORD | det |
| 30 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ark | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 minister | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 minister | cc |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 minister | mark |
| 34 | minister | minister | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 carry | conj |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 36 Him | case |
| 36 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 minister | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 minister | obl |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 for | fixed |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | ought | the ark of God | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | present · perfect | the LORD | for Levites = levite | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | the ark of the LORD | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Theme | ||||
| 5 | minister | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | unto David | tree rules |
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
אָ֚ז אָמַ֣ר דָּוִ֔יד לֹ֤א לָשֵׂאת֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים כִּ֖י אִם־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם כִּי־בָ֣ם ׀ בָּחַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לָשֵׂ֞את אֶת־אֲר֧וֹן יְהוָ֛ה וּֽלְשָׁרְת֖וֹ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃ס
1 Chronicles 15:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1CH:594 of Mova's parse database.
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