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title: 1 Kings 3:4 (JPS 1917) — And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the gre… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 3:4 · JPS 1917

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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

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**Who acts:** king, that, Solomon · **What happens:** go, sacrifice, be, burn, offer · **To what, where:** Gibeon, great high place, thousand burnt offerings

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This is 1 Kings 3:4 · 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 (king, that, Solomon), 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:112
# text = And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gibeon	Gibeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the king |  |  | Gibeon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gibeon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | the great high place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **offer** | past · do-support | Solomon | thousand burnt offerings |  |  |  | upon that altar | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=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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וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ גִּבְעֹ֙נָה֙ לִזְבֹּ֣חַ שָׁ֔ם כִּ֥י הִ֖יא הַבָּמָ֣ה הַגְּדוֹלָ֑ה אֶ֤לֶף עֹלוֹת֙ יַעֲלֶ֣ה שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה עַ֖ל הַמִּזְבֵּ֥חַ הַהֽוּא׃

[1 Kings 3:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.4/)

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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:112` 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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