1 Kings 1:51 · JPS 1917

And it was told Solomon, saying: 'Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon; for, lo, he hath laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear unto me first of all that he will not slay his servant with the sword.'

Who acts: Adonijah, king Solomon · What happens: tell, say, fear, lay, let, swear · To what, where: hold, Solomon, king Solomon, horns, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Kings 1:51 · 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 (Adonijah, king Solomon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 feareth	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 feareth	punct
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	13 feareth	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Behold	punct
12	Adonijah	Adonijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 feareth	nsubj
13	feareth	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Solomon	compound
15	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 feareth	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 laid	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lo	punct
19	lo	lo	INTJ	_	23 laid	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lo	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	nsubj
22	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 laid	aux
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 horns	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horns	det
27	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 laid	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 altar	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 altar	det
30	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 horns	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct
32	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 laid	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
34	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 saying	ccomp
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Solomon	compound
36	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Let	obj
37	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Let	xcomp
38	unto	unto	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 swear	obl
40	first	first	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 swear	advmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	40 first	obl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 slay	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 slay	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 slay	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 slay	advmod
47	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 swear	ccomp
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 servant	nmod:poss
49	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 slay	obj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 sword	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sword	det
52	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 slay	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
54	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		hold	Solomon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient solomon=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fear	present	Adonijah	king Solomon				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer solomon=Stimulus
4	lay	present · perfect	Adonijah	hold		the horns of the altar		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on horn=Destination
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Adonijah not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let	infinitive		king Solomon				tree rules
7	swear	infinitive	king Solomon not said here				unto me; first property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not slay	future	Adonijah	Adonijah's servant			with the sword	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent servant=Patient with sword=Instrument

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

וַיֻּגַּ֤ד לִשְׁלֹמֹה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנֵּה֙ אֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּ יָרֵ֖א אֶת־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וְ֠הִנֵּה אָחַ֞ז בְּקַרְנ֤וֹת הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יִשָּֽׁבַֽע־לִ֤י כַיּוֹם֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אִם־יָמִ֥ית אֶת־עַבְדּ֖וֹ בֶּחָֽרֶב׃

1 Kings 1:51: 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:54 of Mova's parse database.

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