--- title: 1 Chronicles 22:12 (JPS 1917) — Only the LORD give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee… · tree and pragmatics description: Only the LORD give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. Who acts: LORD, thou. 1 Chronicles 22:12 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.796/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/22/) / [22:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.12/) / JPS 1 # 1 Chronicles 22:12 · JPS 1917 Only the LORD give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. **Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** give, concern, keep · **To what, where:** discretion, thee, charge, law This is 1 Chronicles 22:12 · 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 (LORD, 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:796 # text = Only the LORD give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 give give VERB VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 iobj _ _ 6 discretion discretion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 iobj _ _ 13 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 concerning concern VERB IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 mayest may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | infinitive | the LORD | discretion and understanding | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient discretion=Theme | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | charge | thee | | | concern Israel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient charge=Theme | | 3 | **concern** | | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **keep** | may | thou | the law of the LORD | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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} אַ֣ךְ יִֽתֶּן־לְּךָ֤ יְהוָה֙ שֵׂ֣כֶל וּבִינָ֔ה וִֽיצַוְּךָ֖ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלִשְׁמ֕וֹר אֶת־תּוֹרַ֖ת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ [1 Chronicles 22:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:796` 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 22:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.795/) - next →: [1 Chronicles 22:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.797/) - ↑ back to [1 Chronicles 22:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.12/)