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title: 1 Kings 5:11 (JPS 1917) — For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about. Who acts: Solomon, fame. 1 Kings 5:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 5:11 · JPS 1917

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For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, fame · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nations

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This is 1 Kings 5:11 · 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 (Solomon, fame), 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:167
# text = For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ezrahite	Ezrahite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Heman	Heman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Calcol	Calcol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Darda	Darda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Mahol	Mahol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
36	round	round	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  | than Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Darda; all men *obl*; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Solomon's fame |  |  | all nations |  | about *property* | 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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וַיֶּחְכַּם֮ מִכָּל־הָֽאָדָם֒ מֵאֵיתָ֣ן הָאֶזְרָחִ֗י וְהֵימָ֧ן וְכַלְכֹּ֛ל וְדַרְדַּ֖ע בְּנֵ֣י מָח֑וֹל וַיְהִֽי־שְׁמ֥וֹ בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם סָבִֽיב׃

[1 Kings 5:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.11/)

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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:167` 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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