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title: 1 Kings 3:14 (JPS 1917) — And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My command… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.' Who acts: thou, father, I, My. 1 Kings 3:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 3:14 · JPS 1917

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And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.'

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**Who acts:** thou, father, I, My · **What happens:** walk, keep, lengthen, command · **To what, where:** ways, statutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 3:14 · 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 (thou, father, I, My), 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:122
# text = And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lengthen	lengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou |  |  | My ways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | My statutes and My commandments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | past · do-support | thy father |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lengthen** | future | I |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **command** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאִ֣ם ׀ תֵּלֵ֣ךְ בִּדְרָכַ֗י לִשְׁמֹ֤ר חֻקַּי֙ וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֖ךְ דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑יךָ וְהַאַרַכְתִּ֖י אֶת־יָמֶֽיךָ׃ס

[1 Kings 3:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.14/)

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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:122` 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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