--- title: 1 Kings 8:57 (JPS 1917) — The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not… · tree and pragmatics description: The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; Who acts: LORD. 1 Kings 8:57 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.339/) [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/) / [8:57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.57/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 8:57 · JPS 1917 The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** be, let, not leave, forsake · **To what, where:** LORD, us This is 1 Kings 8:57 · 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 (LORD), 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:339 # text = The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 17 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc _ _ 23 forsake forsake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | the LORD | | | | | with us | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | LORD | | | | | with our fathers | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **leave** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | us | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 5 | **forsake** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | 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} יְהִ֨י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ עִמָּ֔נוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה עִם־אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ אַל־יַעַזְבֵ֖נוּ וְאַֽל־יִטְּשֵֽׁנוּ׃ [1 Kings 8:57: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.57/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:339` 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 8:56 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.338/) - next →: [1 Kings 8:58 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.340/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 8:57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.57/)