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title: 1 Kings 2:43 (JPS 1917) — Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandmen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?' Who acts: thou, I. 1 Kings 2:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 2:43 · JPS 1917

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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?'

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** not keep, charge · **To what, where:** oath, thee

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This is 1 Kings 2:43 · 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 (thou, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1KI:104
# text = Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?'
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | present · perfect | thou | the oath of the LORD and the commandment |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with the commandment | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient with that=Theme |

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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}

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וּמַדּ֕וּעַ לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֔רְתָּ אֵ֖ת שְׁבֻעַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־הַמִּצְוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוִּ֥יתִי עָלֶֽיךָ׃

[1 Kings 2:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.43/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:104` 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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