--- title: 1 Chronicles 17:25 (JPS 1917) — For Thou, O my God, hast revealed to Thy servant that Thou wilt buil… · tree and pragmatics description: For Thou, O my God, hast revealed to Thy servant that Thou wilt build him a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray before Thee. Who acts: Thou, servant. 1 Chronicles 17:25 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.691/) [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/) / [17:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.25/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 17:25 · JPS 1917 For Thou, O my God, hast revealed to Thy servant that Thou wilt build him a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray before Thee. **Who acts:** Thou, servant · **What happens:** reveal, build, take, pray · **To what, where:** servant, house, God, heart This is 1 Chronicles 17:25 · 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, servant), 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:691 # text = For Thou, O my God, hast revealed to Thy servant that Thou wilt build him a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray before Thee. 1 For for ADP IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reveal** | present · perfect | Thou | | Thy servant | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **build** | future | Thou | a house | God | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary house=Product | | 3 | **take** | present · perfect | Thy servant | heart | | | | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 4 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Thy servant *not said here* | | | | before Thee | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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} כִּ֣י ׀ אַתָּ֣ה אֱלֹהַ֗י גָּלִ֙יתָ֙ אֶת־אֹ֣זֶן עַבְדְּךָ֔ לִבְנ֥וֹת ל֖וֹ בָּ֑יִת עַל־כֵּן֙ מָצָ֣א עַבְדְּךָ֔ לְהִתְפַּלֵּ֖ל לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃ [1 Chronicles 17:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:691` 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 17:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.690/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 17:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.692/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 17:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.25/)