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title: 1 Kings 1:14 (JPS 1917) — Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.' Who acts: thou, I, thy. 1 Kings 1:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 1:14 · JPS 1917

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Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I, thy · **What happens:** talk, come in, confirm, word · **To what, where:** words

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This is 1 Kings 1:14 · 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, I, thy), 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:13
# text = Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.'
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	talkest	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | thou |  |  | there | yet | with the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come in** | future | I |  |  |  | after thee |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confirm** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thy words |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Topic |
| 4 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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הִנֵּ֗ה עוֹדָ֛ךְ מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת שָׁ֖ם עִם־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַאֲנִי֙ אָב֣וֹא אַחֲרַ֔יִךְ וּמִלֵּאתִ֖י אֶת־דְּבָרָֽיִךְ׃

[1 Kings 1:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.14/)

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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:13` 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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