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title: 1 Kings 6:18 (JPS 1917) — And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. Who acts: all, stone. 1 Kings 6:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 6:18 · JPS 1917

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And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

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**Who acts:** all, stone · **What happens:** carve, be, see · **To what, where:** cedar, stone

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This is 1 Kings 6:18 · 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 (all, stone), 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:206
# text = And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	within	within	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	knops	knop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	_	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **carve** | past · passive |  | the cedar on the house |  |  |  | with knops and open flowers; within *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with knop=Instrument |
| 2 | **is a** | past | all | cedar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | no stone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | participle |  | no stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְאֶ֤רֶז אֶל־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ פְּנִ֔ימָה מִקְלַ֣עַת פְּקָעִ֔ים וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים הַכֹּ֣ל אֶ֔רֶז אֵ֥ין אֶ֖בֶן נִרְאָֽה׃

[1 Kings 6:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.18/)

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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:206` 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.

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