1 Kings 2:17 · JPS 1917

And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he will not say thee nay — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.'

Who acts: Solomon, I · What happens: say, speak, pray, not say, give · To what, where: thee, Abishag, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Kings 2:17 · 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 (Solomon, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Speak	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Speak	punct
6	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pray	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pray	nsubj
9	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Speak	parataxis
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 pray	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Solomon	punct
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 Solomon	case
13	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Speak	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Solomon	appos
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 say	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Speak	advcl
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 say	iobj
23	nay	nay	INTJ	_	21 say	advmod
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	21 say	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	Abishag	Abishag	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Shunammite	det
31	Shunammite	Shunammite	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Abishag	appos
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 wife	case
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Solomon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	infinitive				unto Solomon	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pray	present	I	thee			tree rules
4	not say speech: assert	future	Solomon		thee		tree rules
5	give	infinitive	Solomon	Abishag	me	to wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient abishag=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

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִמְרִי־נָא֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־יָשִׁ֖יב אֶת־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְיִתֶּן־לִ֛י אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֥ג הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

1 Kings 2:17: 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:75 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.

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