1 Chronicles 15:16 · JPS 1917
And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
Who acts: David · What happens: speak, appoint, sound, lift up · To what, where: singers, brethren, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Chronicles 15:16 · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | cc |
| 2 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Levites | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Levites | det |
| 9 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 chief | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 appoint | mark |
| 11 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appoint | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 singers | det |
| 15 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appoint | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 instruments | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 instruments | case |
| 18 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 singers | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 music | case |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 instruments | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 psalteries | punct |
| 22 | psalteries | psaltery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 instruments | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 harps | cc |
| 24 | harps | harp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 instruments | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cymbals | cc |
| 26 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 instruments | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sounding | punct |
| 28 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 appoint | advcl |
| 29 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 28 sounding | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lifting | cc |
| 31 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 sounding | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 lifting | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 voice | det |
| 34 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lifting | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 joy | case |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lifting | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | David | to the chief of the Levites | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | appoint | to-infinitive | David not said here | the singers | Levites's brethren | with instruments of music and psalteries and harps and cymbals | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Theme singer=Attribute | ||
| 3 | sound | gerund | David not said here | aloud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lift up | gerund | David not said here | the voice | with joy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִיד֮ לְשָׂרֵ֣י הַלְוִיִּם֒ לְהַֽעֲמִ֗יד אֶת־אֲחֵיהֶם֙ הַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים בִּכְלֵי־שִׁ֛יר נְבָלִ֥ים וְכִנֹּר֖וֹת וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם מַשְׁמִיעִ֥ים לְהָרִֽים־בְּק֖וֹל לְשִׂמְחָֽה׃פ
1 Chronicles 15:16: 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:608 of Mova's parse database.
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