--- title: 1 Chronicles 29:18 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, ke… · tree and pragmatics description: O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever, even the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart unto Thee; 1 Chronicles 29:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/1CH.1016/) [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/) / [29:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.18/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 29:18 · JPS 1917 O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever, even the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart unto Thee; **What happens:** keep, direct, imagine, think · **To what, where:** this, heart, thoughts This is 1 Chronicles 29:18 · 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: 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:1016 # text = O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever, even the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart unto Thee; 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 imagination imagination NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 direct direct VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 unto unto ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 obl _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | | this | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 2 | **direct** | infinitive | | people's heart | | | | unto Thee | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | | 3 | **imagine** | | | the thoughts of the heart of Thy people | | | | | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **think** | | | the heart of Thy people | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} יְהוָ֗ה אֱ֠לֹהֵי אַבְרָהָ֞ם יִצְחָ֤ק וְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ שֳׁמְרָה־זֹּ֣את לְעוֹלָ֔ם לְיֵ֥צֶר מַחְשְׁב֖וֹת לְבַ֣ב עַמֶּ֑ךָ וְהָכֵ֥ן לְבָבָ֖ם אֵלֶֽיךָ׃ [1 Chronicles 29:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:1016` 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. - ← previous: [1 Chronicles 29:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1015/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 29:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1017/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 29:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.18/)