--- title: 1 Kings 6:38 (JPS 1917) — And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth mont… · tree and pragmatics description: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. Who acts: Bul. 1 Kings 6:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.226/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/6/) / [6:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.38/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 6:38 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. **Who acts:** Bul · **What happens:** be, finish, accord · **To what, where:** eighth month, house This is 1 Kings 6:38 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Bul), 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:226 # text = And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 eleventh eleventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 10 Bul Bul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 eighth eighth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 21 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 case _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bul | the eighth month | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the house | | | month; year | | tree rules | | 3 | **finish** | participle | | the house *not said here* | | | throughout all parts and all fashion of house | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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} וּבַשָּׁנָה֩ הָאַחַ֨ת עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה בְּיֶ֣רַח בּ֗וּל ה֚וּא הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י כָּלָ֣ה הַבַּ֔יִת לְכָל־דְּבָרָ֖יו וּלְכָל־מִשְׁפָּטָ֑יו וַיִּבְנֵ֖הוּ שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִֽים׃ [1 Kings 6:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.38/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it.** 2. [So was he seven years in building it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.227/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:226` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 6:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.225/) - next →: [1 Kings 6:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.227/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 6:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.38/)