--- title: 1 Kings 3:7 (JPS 1917) — And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of D… · tree and pragmatics description: And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in. 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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:115 # text = And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 but but ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 35 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy servant | | | now | instead David; LORD *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset servant=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | I | a little child | | | | but *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go out** | to-infinitive | | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come in** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וְעַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֔י אַתָּה֙ הִמְלַ֣כְתָּ אֶֽת־עַבְדְּךָ֔ תַּ֖חַת דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֑י וְאָֽנֹכִי֙ נַ֣עַר קָטֹ֔ן לֹ֥א אֵדַ֖ע צֵ֥את וָבֹֽא׃ [1 Kings 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:115` 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 3:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.114/) - next →: [1 Kings 3:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.116/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 3:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.7/)