--- title: 1 Kings 3:5 (JPS 1917) — In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God… · tree and pragmatics description: In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' Who acts: LORD, God, I. 1 Kings 3:5 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.113/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/3/) / [3:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.5/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 3:5 · JPS 1917 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' **Who acts:** LORD, God, I · **What happens:** appear, say, ask, give · **To what, where:** Solomon, Gibeon, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 3:5 · 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 (LORD, God, 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:113 # text = In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Gibeon Gibeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 24 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 iobj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the LORD | | Solomon | Gibeon | night | in a dream | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gibeon=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **give** | shall | I | | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient what=Theme | 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} בְּגִבְע֗וֹן נִרְאָ֧ה יְהֹוָ֛ה אֶל־שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בַּחֲל֣וֹם הַלָּ֑יְלָה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים שְׁאַ֖ל מָ֥ה אֶתֶּן־לָֽךְ׃ [1 Kings 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:113` 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 3:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.112/) - next →: [1 Kings 3:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.114/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 3:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.5/)