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title: 1 Kings 6:7 (JPS 1917) — For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made read… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. — Who acts: house, hammer. 1 Kings 6:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 6:7 · JPS 1917

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For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —

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**Who acts:** house, hammer · **What happens:** be, build, make, hear · **To what, where:** building, stone, quarry, tool, house

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This is 1 Kings 6:7 · 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 (house, hammer), 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:195
# text = For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc:preconj	_	_
25	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
44	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	43	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 | house |  |  | building |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for the house; of stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for house=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | stone *not said here* |  | the quarry |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **be** | past | hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | participle |  | any tool of iron *not said here* |  | the house |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | house |  |  | building |  |  | 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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וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 6:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/)

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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:195` of Mova's parse database.

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