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title: 1 Kings 6:12 (JPS 1917) — 'As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father; Who acts: thou, I, Mine, My. 1 Kings 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its depend
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# 1 Kings 6:12 · JPS 1917

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'As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father;

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**Who acts:** thou, I, Mine, My · **What happens:** build, walk, execute, keep, establish, speak · **To what, where:** house, statutes, ordinances, commandments, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 6:12 · 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 (thou, I, Mine, My), 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:200
# text = 'As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
2	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	Mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
38	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
46	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- voice: character
- 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** | present · progressive | thou | this house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
| 2 | **walk** | future | thou |  |  | My statutes |  | as this house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in statute=Trajectory |
| 3 | **execute** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | Mine ordinances |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | My commandments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in commandments *= commandment* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Trajectory |
| 6 | **establish** | future | I | My word |  |  | then | with thee | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Theme with thou=Source |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | I | My word |  |  |  | unto David | tree rules |
| 8 | **ordain** |  | Mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **command** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **word** |  | My |  |  |  |  | with thee | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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הַבַּ֨יִת הַזֶּ֜ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֣ה בֹנֶ֗ה אִם־תֵּלֵ֤ךְ בְּחֻקֹּתַי֙ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֣י תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֥ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתַ֖י לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י אֶת־דְּבָרִי֙ אִתָּ֔ךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי אֶל־דָּוִ֥ד אָבִֽיךָ׃

[1 Kings 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.12/)

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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:200` of Mova's parse database.

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