--- title: 1 Chronicles 17:16 — Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: '… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far? Who acts: David, I, Thou. 1 Chronicles 17:16 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [1 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/17/) / 17:16 # 1 Chronicles 17:16 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א **Who acts:** David, I, Thou · **What happens:** go in, sit, say, be, bring · **To what, where:** house, me · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 1 Chronicles 17:16 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, I, Thou — and what happens in the verse to house, me, 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. וַיָּבֹא֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֔יד וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מִֽי־אֲנִ֞י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ וּמִ֣י בֵיתִ֔י כִּ֥י הֲבִיאֹתַ֖נִי עַד־הֲלֹֽם׃ [Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.682/) ## The tree {#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. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:1CH:627 # text = וַיָּבֹא֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֔יד וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מִֽי־אֲנִ֞י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ וּמִ֣י בֵיתִ֔י כִּ֥י הֲבִיאֹתַ֖נִי עַד־הֲלֹֽם׃ # verse = 1CH.17.16 1-2 וַיָּבֹא֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_17:16!1|MId=o130170160011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּבֹא֙ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.went|Ref=1CH_17:16!1|MId=o130170160012|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:130170160022;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=1CH_17:16!2|MId=o130170160021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 מֶּ֣לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=king|Ref=1CH_17:16!2|MId=o130170160022|Strong=4428 5 דָּוִ֔יד דָּוִד PROPN _ _ 4 appos _ Gloss=David|Ref=1CH_17:16!3|MId=o130170160031|Strong=1732 6-7 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_17:16!4|MId=o130170160041|Strong=2050b 7 יֵּ֖שֶׁב יָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.sat|Ref=1CH_17:16!4|MId=o130170160042|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:130170160022;|Type=wayyiqtol 8-9 לִפְנֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=1CH_17:16!5|MId=o130170160051|Strong=3807a 9 פְנֵ֣י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=1CH_17:16!5|MId=o130170160052|Strong=6440 10 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=1CH_17:16!6|MId=o130170160061|Strong=3068 11-12 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_17:16!7|MId=o130170160071|Strong=2050b 12 יֹּ֗אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=1CH_17:16!7|MId=o130170160072|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:130170160022;|Type=wayyiqtol 13 מִֽי־ מִי PRON _ PronType=Int 12 ccomp _ Gloss=who?|Ref=1CH_17:16!8|MId=o130170160081|Strong=4310|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 14 אֲנִ֞י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Gloss=[am].I|Ref=1CH_17:16!9|MId=o130170160091|Strong=0589|Type=personal 15 יְהוָ֤ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 13 parataxis _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=1CH_17:16!10|MId=o130170160101|Strong=3068 16 אֱלֹהִים֙ אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 15 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=1CH_17:16!11|MId=o130170160111|Strong=0430 17-18 וּמִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_17:16!12|MId=o130170160121|Strong=2050b 18 מִ֣י מִי PRON _ PronType=Int 13 conj _ Gloss=who?|Ref=1CH_17:16!12|MId=o130170160122|Strong=4310|Type=interrogative 19-20 בֵיתִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 בֵית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=house|Ref=1CH_17:16!13|MId=o130170160131|Strong=1004 20 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[is].my|Ref=1CH_17:16!13|MId=o130170160132|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 21 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 22 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=1CH_17:16!14|MId=o130170160141|Strong=3588 22-23 הֲבִיאֹתַ֖נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 הֲבִיאֹתַ֖ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 13 parataxis _ Gloss=you|Ref=1CH_17:16!15|MId=o130170160151|Strong=0935|Frame=AA:130170160101;A0:130170160152;|Type=qatal 23 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ Gloss=have.brought.me|Ref=1CH_17:16!15|MId=o130170160152|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 24 עַד־ עַד ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1CH_17:16!16|MId=o130170160161|Strong=5704|SpaceAfter=No 25 הֲלֹֽם הֲלֹם ADV _ _ 22 obl _ Gloss=here|Ref=1CH_17:16!17|MId=o130170160171|Strong=1988|SpaceAfter=No 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=1CH_17:16!17 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּבֹא *he went* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | | | | | יֵּשֶׁב *he sat* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | | | | | הֲבִיאֹתַ *you* | qatal · hiphil | נִי *have brought me* | | | יְהוָה *O Yahweh* | 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 {#english} 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. 1. [Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.682/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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). 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