--- title: 1 Kings 8:38 (JPS 1917) — what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy pe… · tree and pragmatics description: what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house; Who acts: man. 1 Kings 8:38 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.320/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/8/) / [8:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.38/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 8:38 · JPS 1917 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house; **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** make, know, spread, plague · **To what, where:** prayer, plague, man, hands, own heart This is 1 Kings 8:38 · 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 (man), 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:320 # text = what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house; 1 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 supplication supplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 soever soever ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 iobj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 31 forth forth ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 toward toward ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | infinitive · passive | any man of Thy people | what prayer and supplication | | | | soever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **know** | shall | any man of Thy people | the plague of plague's own heart | every man | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spread** | infinitive | any man of Thy people *not said here* | plague's hands | | | | toward this house; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 4 | **plague** | | | plague's own heart | | | | | nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient | 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} כָּל־תְּפִלָּ֣ה כָל־תְּחִנָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִֽהְיֶה֙ לְכָל־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם לְכֹ֖ל עַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵדְע֗וּן אִ֚ישׁ נֶ֣גַע לְבָב֔וֹ וּפָרַ֥שׂ כַּפָּ֖יו אֶל־הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה׃ [1 Kings 8:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:320` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 8:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.319/) - next →: [1 Kings 8:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.321/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 8:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.38/)