1 Kings 2:20 · JPS 1917

Then she said: 'I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not.' And the king said unto her: 'Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.'

Who acts: Adonijah, I, king · What happens: say, ask, not deny, petition · To what, where: one small petition, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Kings 2:20 · 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, I, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	7 ask	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 ask	nsubj
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 petition	nummod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 petition	amod
10	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 petition	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 deny	punct
14	deny	deny	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 deny	obj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 deny	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 deny	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	unto	unto	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct
27	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
28	on	on	ADV	_	27 Ask	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mother	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Ask	vocative
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 deny	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 deny	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 deny	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 deny	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 deny	advmod
37	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Ask	advcl
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 deny	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Adonijah		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	present	I	one small petition of thee			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Recipient
3	not deny	infinitive		me			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	the king			unto Adonijah	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive				my mother vocative	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not deny	future	I	thee			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality
7	petition			thee			nom petition «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וַתֹּ֗אמֶר שְׁאֵלָ֨ה אַחַ֤ת קְטַנָּה֙ אָֽנֹכִי֙ שֹׁאֶ֣לֶת מֵֽאִתָּ֔ךְ אַל־תָּ֖שֶׁב אֶת־פָּנָ֑י וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֤הּ הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ שַׁאֲלִ֣י אִמִּ֔י כִּ֥י לֹֽא־אָשִׁ֖יב אֶת־פָּנָֽיִךְ׃

1 Kings 2:20: 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:79 of Mova's parse database.

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