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title: 1 Kings 8:53 (JPS 1917) — For Thou didst set them apart from among all the peoples of the eart… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 8:53 · JPS 1917

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For Thou didst set them apart from among all the peoples of the earth, to be Thine inheritance, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, when Thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.'

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** set, be, speak, bring · **To what, where:** people, inheritance, fathers, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 8:53 · 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:335
# text = For Thou didst set them apart from among all the peoples of the earth, to be Thine inheritance, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, when Thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
34	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
35	broughtest	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	_
43	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **set** | past · do-support | Thou | people |  |  |  | from all peoples of the earth; apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | Thine inheritance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Thou |  |  |  |  | by the hand of Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Thou | our fathers |  | Egypt |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent father=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |

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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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כִּֽי־אַתָּ֞ה הִבְדַּלְתָּ֤ם לְךָ֙ לְֽנַחֲלָ֔ה מִכֹּ֖ל עַמֵּ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבַּ֜רְתָּ בְּיַ֣ד ׀ מֹשֶׁ֣ה עַבְדֶּ֗ךָ בְּהוֹצִיאֲךָ֧ אֶת־אֲבֹתֵ֛ינוּ מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃פ

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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:335` of Mova's parse database.

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