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title: 1 Kings 8:44 (JPS 1917) — If Thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever wa… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 8:44 · JPS 1917

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If Thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Thy name;

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**Who acts:** people, Thou, I, Thy · **What happens:** go out, battle, send, pray, choose, build · **To what, where:** people, city, house

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This is 1 Kings 8:44 · 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 (people, Thou, I, Thy), 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:326
# text = If Thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Thy name;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	whatsoever	whatsoever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
30	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
31	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Thy people |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **battle** | to-infinitive | Thy people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against people's enemy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | shall | Thou | people |  |  |  | by whatsoever way | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **pray** | present | people |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD; toward the city and the house | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **choose** | present · perfect | Thou | the city and the house |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 6 | **build** | present · perfect | I | the house |  |  |  | for Thy name | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for name=Asset |
| 7 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כִּי־יֵצֵ֨א עַמְּךָ֤ לַמִּלְחָמָה֙ עַל־אֹ֣יְב֔וֹ בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּשְׁלָחֵ֑ם וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֣וּ אֶל־יְהוָ֗ה דֶּ֤רֶךְ הָעִיר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּחַ֣רְתָּ בָּ֔הּ וְהַבַּ֖יִת אֲשֶׁר־בָּנִ֥תִי לִשְׁמֶֽךָ׃

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