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title: 1 Kings 7:19 (JPS 1917) — And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. Who acts: capitals. 1 Kings 7:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 7:19 · JPS 1917

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And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.

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**Who acts:** capitals · **What happens:** be

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This is 1 Kings 7:19 · 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 (capitals), 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:248
# text = And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the capitals |  |  |  |  | upon the top; of the pillars in the porch | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the capitals |  |  |  |  | of lily work | 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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וְכֹֽתָרֹ֗ת אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִ֔ים מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה שׁוּשַׁ֣ן בָּֽאוּלָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֖ע אַמּֽוֹת׃

[1 Kings 7:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.19/)

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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:248` 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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