--- title: 1 Kings 2:17 — And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he wil… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: 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. 1 Kings 2:17 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/2/) / 2:17 # 1 Kings 2:17 מְלָכִים א **Who acts:** Solomon, I · **What happens:** say, speak, pray, not say, give · **To what, where:** thee, Abishag, me · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 1 Kings 2:17 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 — Solomon, I — and what happens in the verse to thee, Abishag, me, 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. וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִמְרִי־נָא֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־יָשִׁ֖יב אֶת־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְיִתֶּן־לִ֛י אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֥ג הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ [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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.75/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:69 # text = וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִמְרִי־נָא֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־יָשִׁ֖יב אֶת־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְיִתֶּן־לִ֛י אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֥ג הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ # verse = 1KI.2.17 1-2 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_2:17!1|MId=o110020170011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֗אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=1KI_2:17!1|MId=o110020170012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:110020130021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אִמְרִי־ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 ccomp _ Gloss=speak|Ref=1KI_2:17!2|MId=o110020170021|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:110020130061;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No 4 נָא֙ נָא INTJ _ _ 3 discourse _ Gloss=please|Ref=1KI_2:17!3|MId=o110020170031|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation 5-6 לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_2:17!4|MId=o110020170041|Strong=3807a 6 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה שְׁלֹמֹה PROPN _ _ 3 obl _ Gloss=Solomon|Ref=1KI_2:17!4|MId=o110020170042|Strong=8010 7-8 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 8 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_2:17!5|MId=o110020170051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 8 מֶּ֔לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 appos _ Gloss=king|Ref=1KI_2:17!5|MId=o110020170052|Strong=4428 9 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=1KI_2:17!6|MId=o110020170061|Strong=3588 10 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=1KI_2:17!7|MId=o110020170071|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 11 יָשִׁ֖יב שׁוּב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 advcl _ Gloss=he.will.turn.away|Ref=1KI_2:17!8|MId=o110020170081|Strong=7725|Frame=AA:110020170042;A0:110020170101;|Type=yiqtol 12 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_2:17!9|MId=o110020170091|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 13-14 פָּנָ֑יִךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 פָּנָ֑י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 11 obj _ Gloss=face|Ref=1KI_2:17!10|MId=o110020170101|Strong=6440 14 ִךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=1KI_2:17!10|MId=o110020170102|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 15-16 וְיִתֶּן־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_2:17!11|MId=o110020170111|Strong=2050b 16 יִתֶּן־ נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=may.he.give|Ref=1KI_2:17!11|MId=o110020170112|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:110020170042;A1:110020170141;|Type=yiqtol 17-18 לִ֛י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 ל לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_2:17!12|MId=o110020170121|Strong=3807a 18 ִ֛י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=1KI_2:17!12|MId=o110020170122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_2:17!13|MId=o110020170131|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 20 אֲבִישַׁ֥ג אֲבִישַׁג PROPN _ _ 16 obj _ Gloss=Abishag|Ref=1KI_2:17!14|MId=o110020170141|Strong=0049 21-22 הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_2:17!15|MId=o110020170151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 שּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית שׁוּנַמִּי NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 20 appos _ Gloss=Shunammite|Ref=1KI_2:17!15|MId=o110020170152|Strong=7767|Type=gentilic 23-24 לְאִשָּֽׁה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_2:17!16|MId=o110020170161|Strong=3807a 24 אִשָּֽׁה אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=a.wife|Ref=1KI_2:17!16|MId=o110020170162|Strong=0802 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=1KI_2:17!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - hedged: yes (נָא) - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | אִמְרִי־ *speak* | imperative · qal | | | | | | **not** יָשִׁיב *he will turn away* | yiqtol · hiphil | פָּנָי *face* | | | שְׁלֹמֹה *Solomon* | | יִתֶּן־ *may he give* | yiqtol · qal | שְׁלֹמֹה *Solomon* | אֲבִישַׁג *Abishag* | | | 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} וַאֲמַר אִמְרִי כְעַן לִשְׁלֹמֹה מַלְכָּא אֲרֵי לָא יְתִיב יַת אַפָּיִךְ וִיהַב לִי יַת אֲבִישַׁג דְמִן שׁוּנֵם לְאִתּוּ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.75/) **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). 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