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title: 1 Kings 10:1 — And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. Who acts: queen. 1 Kings 10:1 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 10:1 מְלָכִים א

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** hear, come, prove, name · **To what, where:** Solomon, LORD

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This is 1 Kings 10:1 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — queen — and what happens in the verse to Solomon, LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 22 chapters of 1 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וּמַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָ֗א שֹׁמַ֛עַת אֶת־שֵׁ֥מַע שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לְשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה וַתָּבֹ֥א לְנַסֹּת֖וֹ בְּחִידֽוֹת׃

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[And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.379/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:1KI:362
# text = וּמַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָ֗א שֹׁמַ֛עַת אֶת־שֵׁ֥מַע שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לְשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה וַתָּבֹ֥א לְנַסֹּת֖וֹ בְּחִידֽוֹת׃
# verse = 1KI.10.1
1-2	וּמַֽלְכַּת־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_10:1!1|MId=o110100010011|Strong=2050b
2	מַֽלְכַּת־	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.queen|Ref=1KI_10:1!1|MId=o110100010012|Strong=4436
3	שְׁבָ֗א	שְׁבָא	PROPN	_	_	2	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Sheba|Ref=1KI_10:1!2|MId=o110100010021|Strong=7614
4	שֹׁמַ֛עַת	שָׁמַע	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=[was].hearing|Ref=1KI_10:1!3|MId=o110100010031|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:110100010012;A1:110100010051;|Type=participle_active
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_10:1!4|MId=o110100010041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
6	שֵׁ֥מַע	שֵׁמַע	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Gloss=the.report|Ref=1KI_10:1!5|MId=o110100010051|Strong=8088
7	שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה	שְׁלֹמֹה	PROPN	_	_	6	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Solomon|Ref=1KI_10:1!6|MId=o110100010061|Strong=8010
8-9	לְשֵׁ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_10:1!7|MId=o110100010071|Strong=3807a
9	שֵׁ֣ם	שֵׁם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Gloss=the.name|Ref=1KI_10:1!7|MId=o110100010072|Strong=8034
10	יְהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	9	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1KI_10:1!8|MId=o110100010081|Strong=3068
11-12	וַתָּבֹ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_10:1!9|MId=o110100010091|Strong=2050b
12	תָּבֹ֥א	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	conj	_	Gloss=she.came|Ref=1KI_10:1!9|MId=o110100010092|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:110100010012;|Type=wayyiqtol
13-15	לְנַסֹּת֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_10:1!10|MId=o110100010101|Strong=3807a
14	נַסֹּת	נָסָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=PIEL	12	advcl	_	Gloss=put|Ref=1KI_10:1!10|MId=o110100010102|Strong=5254|Frame=A0:110100010012;A1:110100010103;|Type=infinitive_construct
15	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	Gloss=him.to.the.test|Ref=1KI_10:1!10|MId=o110100010103|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
16-17	בְּחִידֽוֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=1KI_10:1!11|MId=o110100010111|Strong=0871a
17	חִידֽוֹת	חִידָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Gloss=difficult.matters|Ref=1KI_10:1!11|MId=o110100010112|Strong=2420
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=1KI_10:1!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| שֹׁמַעַת *\[was\] hearing* | participle active · qal | מַֽלְכַּת־ *the queen* | שֵׁמַע *the report* |  |  |
| תָּבֹא *she came* | wayyiqtol · qal | מַֽלְכַּת־ *the queen* |  |  |  |
| נַסֹּת *put* | infinitive construct · piel | מַֽלְכַּת־ *the queen* | וֹ *him to the test* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וּמַלְכַּת שְׁבָא שְׁמַעַת יַת שְׁמַע שְׁלֹמֹה לִשְׁמָא דַייָ וַאֲתַת לְנַסָיוּתֵיהּ בְּחוֹדָאִין:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.379/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:1KI:362`.

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