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title: 1 Kings 8:13 (JPS 1917) — I have surely built Thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have surely built Thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to dwell in for ever. Who acts: I, Thee. 1 Kings 8:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 8:13 · JPS 1917

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I have surely built Thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to dwell in for ever.

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**Who acts:** I, Thee · **What happens:** build, dwell · **To what, where:** house, Thee

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This is 1 Kings 8:13 · 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 (I, Thee), 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:295
# text = I have surely built Thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to dwell in for ever.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	case	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **build** | present · perfect | I | a house of habitation | Thee |  |  | surely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | Thee |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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בָּנֹ֥ה בָנִ֛יתִי בֵּ֥ית זְבֻ֖ל לָ֑ךְ מָכ֥וֹן לְשִׁבְתְּךָ֖ עוֹלָמִֽים׃

[1 Kings 8:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.13/)

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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:295` 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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