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title: 1 Kings 6:2 (JPS 1917) — And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length ther… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. Who acts: king Solomon, length. 1 Kings 6:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 6:2 · JPS 1917

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And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

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**Who acts:** king Solomon, length · **What happens:** build, be · **To what, where:** house, threescore cubits

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This is 1 Kings 6:2 · 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 (king Solomon, length), 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:190
# text = And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	dislocated	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	orphan	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	orphan	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **build** | past | king Solomon | the house |  |  |  | for the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for lord=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the length | threescore cubits and the breadth and the height |  |  |  |  | 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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וְהַבַּ֗יִת אֲשֶׁ֨ר בָּנָ֜ה הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה שִׁשִּֽׁים־אַמָּ֥ה אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים רָחְבּ֑וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 6:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.2/)

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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:190` of Mova's parse database.

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