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title: 1 Kings 7:29 (JPS 1917) — and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Who acts: borders, work. 1 Kings 7:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 7:29 · JPS 1917

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and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

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**Who acts:** borders, work · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lions, borders, like manner, wreaths

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This is 1 Kings 7:29 · 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 (borders, work), 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:258
# text = and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stays	stay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cherubim	cherubim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stays	stay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
27	above	above	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	hanging	hang	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the borders |  |  |  |  | between the stays | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | lions and oxen and cherubim and like manner and wreaths |  | the borders |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | work |  |  | like manner |  | upon the stays; above *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | wreaths |  |  |  | beneath the lions and oxen; of hanging 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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וְעַֽל־הַמִּסְגְּר֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בֵּ֣ין הַשְׁלַבִּ֗ים אֲרָי֤וֹת ׀ בָּקָר֙ וּכְרוּבִ֔ים וְעַל־הַשְׁלַבִּ֖ים כֵּ֣ן מִמָּ֑עַל וּמִתַּ֙חַת֙ לַאֲרָי֣וֹת וְלַבָּקָ֔ר לֹי֖וֹת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה מוֹרָֽד׃

[1 Kings 7:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.29/)

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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:258` 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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