1 Chronicles 21:3 · JPS 1917
And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'
Who acts: Joab, LORD · What happens: say, make, not be, require, be · To what, where: more, people, servants, thing, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Chronicles 21:3 · 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 (Joab, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Joab | Joab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 LORD | det |
| 7 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 make | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 are | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 servants | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 servants | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lord | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lord | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 servants | vocative |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lord | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lord | punct |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 servants | cop |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 servants | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 servants | advmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 servants | det:predet |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 servants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 lord | case |
| 35 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | parataxis |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 servants | punct |
| 37 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 require | advmod |
| 38 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 require | aux |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 lord | nmod:poss |
| 40 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 require | nsubj |
| 41 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 thing | det |
| 43 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 require | obj |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 41 require | punct |
| 45 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 cause | advmod |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 cause | aux |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 cause | nsubj |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 cause | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 cause | det |
| 50 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 guilt | case |
| 52 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cause | nmod |
| 53 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 54 Israel | case |
| 54 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 cause | nmod |
| 55 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
- assert
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the LORD | more | LORD's people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset people=Beneficiary more=Product | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | Joab | my lord's servants | my lord vocative | tree rules | |||
| 4 | require | present · do-support | my lord | this thing | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | is a | future | LORD | a cause | of guilt; unto Israel | 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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יוֹאָ֗ב יוֹסֵף֩ יְהוָ֨ה עַל־עַמּ֤וֹ ׀ כָּהֵם֙ מֵאָ֣ה פְעָמִ֔ים הֲלֹא֙ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כֻּלָּ֥ם לַאדֹנִ֖י לַעֲבָדִ֑ים לָ֣מָּה יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ זֹאת֙ אֲדֹנִ֔י לָ֛מָּה יִהְיֶ֥ה לְאַשְׁמָ֖ה לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
1 Chronicles 21:3: 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:752 of Mova's parse database.
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