---
title: 1 Chronicles 29:14 (JPS 1917) — But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer… · tree and pragmatics
description: But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee. Who acts: I, people, we, things. 1 Chronicles 29:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1011/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/29/) / [29:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.14/) / JPS 1

# 1 Chronicles 29:14 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, people, we, things · **What happens:** be, offer, come, give · **To what, where:** people, Thee

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 1 Chronicles 29:14 · 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 (I, people, we, things), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1CH:1011
# text = But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	obl	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
39	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	iobj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, indirect=1

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | my people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | should | we | my people *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  | after this sort | willingly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | present | all things |  |  |  |  | of Thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of thou=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **give** | present · perfect | we |  | Thee |  |  | of Thine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#hebrew}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְכִ֨י מִ֤י אֲנִי֙ וּמִ֣י עַמִּ֔י כִּֽי־נַעְצֹ֣ר כֹּ֔חַ לְהִתְנַדֵּ֖ב כָּזֹ֑את כִּֽי־מִמְּךָ֣ הַכֹּ֔ל וּמִיָּדְךָ֖ נָתַ֥נּוּ לָֽךְ׃

[1 Chronicles 29:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.14/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:1011` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [1 Chronicles 29:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1010/)
- next →: [1 Chronicles 29:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1012/)
- ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 29:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.14/)