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title: 1 Kings 7:2 (JPS 1917) — For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof… · tree and pragmatics
description: For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. Who acts: Solomon, length. 1 Kings 7:2 in JPS 1917 with its depend
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# 1 Kings 7:2 · JPS 1917

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For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

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

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This is 1 Kings 7:2 · 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 (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:229
# text = For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
30	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Solomon | the house of the forest of Lebanon |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the length | hundred cubits and the breadth  fifty cubits and the height  thirty cubits |  |  |  | upon four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams upon the pillars | 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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וַיִּ֜בֶן אֶת־בֵּ֣ית ׀ יַ֣עַר הַלְּבָנ֗וֹן מֵאָ֨ה אַמָּ֤ה אָרְכּוֹ֙ וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים אַמָּה֙ רָחְבּ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה קוֹמָת֑וֹ עַ֗ל אַרְבָּעָה֙ טוּרֵי֙ עַמּוּדֵ֣י אֲרָזִ֔ים וּכְרֻת֥וֹת אֲרָזִ֖ים עַל־הָעַמּוּדִֽים׃

[1 Kings 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.2/)

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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:229` of Mova's parse database.

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