--- title: 1 Kings 1:24 (JPS 1917) — And Nathan said: 'My lord, O king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall re… · tree and pragmatics description: And Nathan said: 'My lord, O king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? Who acts: Nathan, thou, Adonijah, king. 1 Kings 1:24 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.24/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/1/) / [1:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.24/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 1:24 · JPS 1917 And Nathan said: 'My lord, O king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? **Who acts:** Nathan, thou, Adonijah, king · **What happens:** say, reign, sit · **To what, where:** throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 1:24 · 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 (Nathan, thou, Adonijah, king), 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:24 # text = And Nathan said: 'My lord, O king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Nathan Nathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 6 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 vocative _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 O o INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Adonijah Adonijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 reign reign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nathan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | thou | | | | | My lord *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **reign** | shall | Adonijah | | | | after me | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | shall | king | | | my throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location | 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} וַיֹּאמֶר֮ נָתָן֒ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אַתָּ֣ה אָמַ֔רְתָּ אֲדֹנִיָּ֖הוּ יִמְלֹ֣ךְ אַחֲרָ֑י וְה֖וּא יֵשֵׁ֥ב עַל־כִּסְאִֽי׃ [1 Kings 1:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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