1 Kings 8:16 · JPS 1917

Since the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that My name might be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.

Who acts: I, name, My · What happens: bring, choose, build, be, name · To what, where: people, Egypt, city, tribes, house, David

This is 1 Kings 8:16 · 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 (I, name, My), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chose	obl
4	that	that	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 brought	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 brought	nsubj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 day	acl:relcl
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod:poss
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brought	obj
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	appos
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 Egypt	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Egypt	case
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chose	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 chose	nsubj
16	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 city	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chose	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	23 tribes	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 tribes	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 tribes	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tribes	det
23	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 city	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Israel	case
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tribes	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 build	mark
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 chose	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 build	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 there	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 there	mark
32	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 name	nmod:poss
33	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 there	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 there	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 build	advcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 chose	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 chose	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 chose	nsubj
40	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chose	conj
41	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 chose	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	46 people	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 people	cop
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 people	case
45	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 people	nmod:poss
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 chose	xcomp
47	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 people	appos
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 chose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	I	My people	Egypt		forth, that property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent people=Theme out egypt=Initial_Location
2	choose	past	I	no city	all tribes of Israel	day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	build	to-infinitive	I not said here	a house				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
4	is	might	My name				there property	tree rules
5	choose	past	I	David				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	I not said here				over My people	tree rules
7	name		My					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

מִן־הַיּ֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹצֵ֜אתִי אֶת־עַמִּ֣י אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ מִמִּצְרַיִם֒ לֹֽא־בָחַ֣רְתִּי בְעִ֗יר מִכֹּל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִבְנ֣וֹת בַּ֔יִת לִהְי֥וֹת שְׁמִ֖י שָׁ֑ם וָאֶבְחַ֣ר בְּדָוִ֔ד לִֽהְי֖וֹת עַל־עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

1 Kings 8:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:298 of Mova's parse database.

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