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title: 1 Chronicles 17:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Go and tell David My servant: Thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not b… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Go and tell David My servant: Thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not build Me a house to dwell in; Who acts: you, LORD, Thou. 1 Chronicles 17:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 17:4 · JPS 1917

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'Go and tell David My servant: Thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not build Me a house to dwell in;

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, Thou · **What happens:** go, tell, say, not build, dwell · **To what, where:** servant, David, house, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 17:4 · 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 (you, LORD, Thou), 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:669
# text = 'Go and tell David My servant: Thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not build Me a house to dwell in;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
18	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | My servant | David |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent david=Recipient servant=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **build** | shall | Thou | a house | Me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 5 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | a house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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לֵ֤ךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֣יד עַבְדִּ֔י כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה לֹ֥א אַתָּ֛ה תִּבְנֶה־לִּ֥י הַבַּ֖יִת לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

[1 Chronicles 17:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:669` 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.

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