--- title: 1 Chronicles 21:23 (JPS 1917) — And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the kin… · tree and pragmatics description: And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all' Who acts: Ornan, lord, I. 1 Chronicles 21:23 in JPS 1917 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.777/) [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/) / [21:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.23/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 21:23 · JPS 1917 And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all' **Who acts:** Ornan, lord, I · **What happens:** say, take, let, do, be, give · **To what, where:** altar, thee, lord, that, eyes, oxen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Chronicles 21:23 · 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 (Ornan, 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:777 # text = And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Ornan Ornan 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 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obj _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 lo lo INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 iobj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 threshing threshing NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 53 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 55 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 56 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 57 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 59 det _ _ 61 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ornan | | | | | unto David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | | altar | | thee | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to thou=Destination | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | my lord | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | my lord *not said here* | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | Ornan's eyes | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | present | I | the oxen and the threshing instruments for wood and the wheat for the meal offering | thee | | | for burnt offerings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient ox=Theme for offering=Asset | | 7 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **give** | present | I | altar | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אָרְנָ֤ן אֶל־דָּוִיד֙ קַֽח־לָ֔ךְ וְיַ֛עַשׂ אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ הַטּ֣וֹב בְּעֵינָ֑יו רְאֵה֩ נָתַ֨תִּי הַבָּקָ֜ר לָֽעֹל֗וֹת וְהַמּוֹרִגִּ֧ים לָעֵצִ֛ים וְהַחִטִּ֥ים לַמִּנְחָ֖ה הַכֹּ֥ל נָתָֽתִּי׃ [1 Chronicles 21:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:777` 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 21:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.776/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 21:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.778/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 21:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.23/)