--- title: 1 Chronicles 21:13 (JPS 1917) — And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let me fall now in… · tree and pragmatics description: And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for very great are His mercies; and let me not fall into the hand of man.' Who acts: David, I, me, mercies. 1 Chronicles 21:13 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.765/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/21/) / [21:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.13/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 21:13 · JPS 1917 And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for very great are His mercies; and let me not fall into the hand of man.' **Who acts:** David, I, me, mercies · **What happens:** say, be, let, fall, not fall · **To what, where:** great strait, me, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Chronicles 21:13 · 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 (David, I, me, mercies), 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:765 # text = And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for very great are His mercies; and let me not fall into the hand of man.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Gad Gad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 9 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 30 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mercies mercy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | | | | unto Gad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | a great strait | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | now | into the hand of the LORD *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | | 5 | **is** | present | LORD's mercies | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **fall** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | into the hand of man *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | 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} וַיֹּ֧אמֶר דָּוִ֛יד אֶל־גָּ֖ד צַר־לִ֣י מְאֹ֑ד אֶפְּלָה־נָּ֣א בְיַד־יְהוָ֗ה כִּֽי־רַבִּ֤ים רַחֲמָיו֙ מְאֹ֔ד וּבְיַד־אָדָ֖ם אַל־אֶפֹּֽל׃ [1 Chronicles 21:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:765` 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 21:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.764/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 21:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.766/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 21:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.13/)