--- title: 1 Kings 2:40 (JPS 1917) — And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, t… · tree and pragmatics description: And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. Who acts: Shimei. 1 Kings 2:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/1KI.101/) [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/) / [2:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.40/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 2:40 · JPS 1917 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. **Who acts:** Shimei · **What happens:** arise, saddle, go, seek, bring · **To what, where:** ass, Achish, Gath, servants This is 1 Kings 2:40 · 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 (Shimei), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:1KI:101 # text = And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Shimei Shimei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 saddled saddle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Gath Gath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Achish Achish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Shimei Shimei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Gath Gath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | Shimei | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **saddle** | past | Shimei *not said here* | Gath's ass | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Destination | | 3 | **go** | past | Shimei *not said here* | | Achish | Gath | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to gath=Initial\_Location to achish=Destination | | 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Shimei *not said here* | Gath's servants | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | Shimei | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | past | Shimei *not said here* | Gath's servants | | Gath | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent servant=Theme from gath=Initial\_Location | 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 {#hebrew} וַיָּ֣קָם שִׁמְעִ֗י וַֽיַּחֲבֹשׁ֙ אֶת־חֲמֹר֔וֹ וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ גַּ֙תָה֙ אֶל־אָכִ֔ישׁ לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־עֲבָדָ֑יו וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שִׁמְעִ֔י וַיָּבֵ֥א אֶת־עֲבָדָ֖יו מִגַּֽת׃ [1 Kings 2:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.40/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:101` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 2:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.100/) - next →: [1 Kings 2:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.102/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 2:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.40/)