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title: 1 Kings 8:49 (JPS 1917) — then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwe… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 8:49 · JPS 1917

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then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

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**Who acts:** Thou, people · **What happens:** hear, maintain, pray, supplicate, cause · **To what, where:** prayer, cause, heaven

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This is 1 Kings 8:49 · 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, people), 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:331
# text = then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
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	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | infinitive | Thou | people's prayer and people's supplication in heaven |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **maintain** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | people's cause |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **supplicate** |  | people |  |  | heaven |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 5 | **cause** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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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וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֤ הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ מְכ֣וֹן שִׁבְתְּךָ֔ אֶת־תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם וְאֶת־תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃

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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:331` 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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