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title: 1 Kings 5:28 (JPS 1917) — And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a mont… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy. Who acts: Solomon, wisdom, Adoniram. 1 Kings 5:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 5:28 · JPS 1917

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And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, wisdom, Adoniram · **What happens:** send, be · **To what, where:** wisdom, Lebanon, levy

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This is 1 Kings 5:28 · 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, wisdom, Adoniram), 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:184
# text = And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	Adoniram	Adoniram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	levy	levy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **send** | past | Solomon | wisdom | Lebanon |  |  | by courses; ten thousand  a month *obl:unmarked* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to lebanon=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | wisdom |  |  | Lebanon and two months at home | month |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Adoniram |  |  | the levy |  |  | 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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וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֣ם לְבָנ֗וֹנָה עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֤ים בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ חֲלִיפ֔וֹת חֹ֚דֶשׁ יִהְי֣וּ בַלְּבָנ֔וֹן שְׁנַ֥יִם חֳדָשִׁ֖ים בְּבֵית֑וֹ וַאֲדֹנִירָ֖ם עַל־הַמַּֽס׃ס

[1 Kings 5:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.28/)

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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:184` of Mova's parse database.

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