--- title: 1 Kings 5:15 (JPS 1917) — And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had he… · tree and pragmatics description: And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David. Who acts: Hiram king, Solomon, kings, Hiram. 1 Kings 5:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.171/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/5/) / [5:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.15/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 5:15 · JPS 1917 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David. **Who acts:** Hiram king, Solomon, kings, Hiram · **What happens:** send, hear, anoint, be · **To what, where:** servants, Solomon, room, lover · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 5:15 · 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 (Hiram king, Solomon, kings, Hiram), 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:171 # text = And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Hiram Hiram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Tyre Tyre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 anointed anoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 Hiram Hiram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Hiram king of Tyre | Solomon's servants | | | | unto Solomon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Solomon | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **anoint** | past · perfect | kings *= king* | Solomon | | the room of Solomon's father | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 4 | **is a** | past | Hiram | a lover | | | ever | of David | tree rules | 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} וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח חִירָ֨ם מֶֽלֶךְ־צ֤וֹר אֶת־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶל־שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה כִּ֣י שָׁמַ֔ע כִּ֥י אֹת֛וֹ מָשְׁח֥וּ לְמֶ֖לֶךְ תַּ֣חַת אָבִ֑יהוּ כִּ֣י אֹהֵ֗ב הָיָ֥ה חִירָ֛ם לְדָוִ֖ד כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ס [1 Kings 5:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:171` 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 5:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.170/) - next →: [1 Kings 5:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.172/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 5:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.15/)