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title: 1 Chronicles 17:7 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over My people Israel; Who acts: thou, LORD, I. 1 Chronicles 17:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# 1 Chronicles 17:7 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over My people Israel;

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD, I · **What happens:** say, take, follow, be · **To what, where:** thee, sheepcote, sheep, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 17:7 · 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 (thou, LORD, I), 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:672
# text = Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over My people Israel;
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sheepcote	sheepcote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
33	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  | now | unto My servant; therefore, thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | past | I | thee |  | the sheepcote |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from sheepcote=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | I *not said here* | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | should | thou | prince |  |  |  | over My people | tree rules |

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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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וְ֠עַתָּה כֹּֽה־תֹאמַ֞ר לְעַבְדִּ֣י לְדָוִ֗ידס כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֲנִ֤י לְקַחְתִּ֙יךָ֙ מִן־הַנָּוֶ֔ה מִֽן־אַחֲרֵ֖י הַצֹּ֑אן לִהְי֣וֹת נָגִ֔יד עַ֖ל עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[1 Chronicles 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.7/)

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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:672` 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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