--- title: 1 Kings 1:29 (JPS 1917) — And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, Who acts: king, LORD. 1 Kings 1:29 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.29/) [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/) / [1:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.29/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 1:29 · JPS 1917 And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, **Who acts:** king, LORD · **What happens:** swear, say, live, redeem · **To what, where:** soul, adversity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 1:29 · 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 (king, LORD), 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:29 # text = And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 As as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 redeemed redeem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 adversity adversity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | past | the king | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **redeem** | present · perfect | the LORD | my soul | | all adversity | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme out adversity=Source | 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} וַיִּשָּׁבַ֥ע הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר חַי־יְהוָ֕ה אֲשֶׁר־פָּדָ֥ה אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִכָּל־צָרָֽה׃ [1 Kings 1:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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