--- title: 1 Chronicles 17:23 (JPS 1917) — And now, O LORD, let the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy s… · tree and pragmatics description: And now, O LORD, let the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as Thou hast spoken. Who acts: you, Thou. 1 Chronicles 17:23 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.689/) [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/) / [17:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.23/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 17:23 · JPS 1917 And now, O LORD, let the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as Thou hast spoken. **Who acts:** you, Thou · **What happens:** let, speak, establish, do · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Chronicles 17:23 · 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, 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:689 # text = And now, O LORD, let the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as Thou hast spoken. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 concerning concern ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 concerning concern ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 32 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word | | | now | LORD *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Thou | the word | | | | concern Thy servant; concern LORD's house | tree rules | | 3 | **establish** | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Thou | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה הַדָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבַּ֤רְתָּ עַֽל־עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְעַל־בֵּית֔וֹ יֵאָמֵ֖ן עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם וַעֲשֵׂ֖ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ [1 Chronicles 17:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:689` 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 17:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.688/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 17:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.690/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 17:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.23/)