---
title: 1 Kings 2:46 (JPS 1917) — So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. Who acts: king. 1 Kings 2:46 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.107/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [2:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.46/) / JPS 1

# 1 Kings 2:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** command, go out, fall, die · **To what, where:** Benaiah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 1 Kings 2:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1KI:107
# text = So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Benaiah	Benaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the king | Benaiah |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent benaiah=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | past | king |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon king | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 4 | **die** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיְצַ֣ו הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֶת־בְּנָיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע וַיֵּצֵ֕א וַיִּפְגַּע־בּ֖וֹ וַיָּמֹ֑ת וְהַמַּמְלָכָ֥ה נָכ֖וֹנָה בְּיַד־שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

[1 Kings 2:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.46/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. **So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died.**
2. [And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.108/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:107` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [1 Kings 2:45 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.106/)
- next →: [1 Kings 2:46 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.108/)
- ↑ back to [1 Kings 2:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.46/)