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title: 1 Kings 1:13 (JPS 1917) — Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him: Didst not thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign? Who acts: you, thou, Solomon, Adonijah. 1 Kings 1:13 in JPS 1917 with
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# 1 Kings 1:13 · JPS 1917

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Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

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**Who acts:** you, thou, Solomon, Adonijah · **What happens:** go, get in, say, not swear, reign, sit · **To what, where:** thee, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 1:13 · 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 (you, thou, Solomon, Adonijah), 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:12
# text = Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	Didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	Assuredly	assuredly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
33	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
45	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
49	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
51	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	Adonijah	Adonijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
54	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get in** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | unto king David | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **swear** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | unto thy handmaid | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **reign** | shall | Solomon |  |  |  | after me | assuredly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sit** | shall | Solomon |  |  | my throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
| 8 | **reign** | present · do-support | Adonijah |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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לְכִ֞י וּבֹ֣אִי ׀ אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֗ד וְאָמַ֤רְתְּ אֵלָיו֙ הֲלֹֽא־אַתָּ֞ה אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ נִשְׁבַּ֤עְתָּ לַאֲמָֽתְךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כִּֽי־שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה בְנֵךְ֙ יִמְלֹ֣ךְ אַחֲרַ֔י וְה֖וּא יֵשֵׁ֣ב עַל־כִּסְאִ֑י וּמַדּ֖וּעַ מָלַ֥ךְ אֲדֹנִיָֽהוּ׃

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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:12` of Mova's parse database.

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