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title: 1 Kings 8:39 (JPS 1917) — then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest — for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men — Who acts: Thou. 1 Kings 8:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# 1 Kings 8:39 · JPS 1917

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then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest — for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men —

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** hear, forgive, do, render, accord, know · **To what, where:** dwelling place, heaven, heart, hearts

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This is 1 Kings 8:39 · 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 (Thou), 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:321
# text = then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest — for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men —
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	render	render	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
34	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	appos	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | infinitive | Thou | Thy dwelling place |  | heaven | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forgive** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **render** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto every man; accord heaven's ways | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** | present | Thou | heaven's ways's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
| 7 | **know** | present | Thou | the hearts of all children of men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |

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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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וְ֠אַתָּה תִּשְׁמַ֨ע הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם מְכ֤וֹן שִׁבְתֶּ֙ךָ֙ וְסָלַחְתָּ֣ וְעָשִׂ֔יתָ וְנָתַתָּ֤ לָאִישׁ֙ כְּכָל־דְּרָכָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר תֵּדַ֖ע אֶת־לְבָב֑וֹ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֤ה יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙ לְבַדְּךָ֔ אֶת־לְבַ֖ב כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י הָאָדָֽם׃

[1 Kings 8:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.39/)

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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:321` of Mova's parse database.

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