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title: 1 Kings 8:61 (JPS 1917) — Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.' Who acts: heart, LORD. 1 Kings 8:61 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 8:61 · JPS 1917

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Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'

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**Who acts:** heart, LORD · **What happens:** let, be, walk, keep, command · **To what, where:** statutes, commandments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 8:61 · 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 (heart, 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:343
# text = Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	you	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | your heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | your heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the LORD; therefore, whole *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | your heart *not said here* |  |  | LORD's statutes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in statute=Trajectory |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | your heart *not said here* | LORD's commandments |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 5 | **command** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «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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וְהָיָ֤ה לְבַבְכֶם֙ שָׁלֵ֔ם עִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לָלֶ֧כֶת בְּחֻקָּ֛יו וְלִשְׁמֹ֥ר מִצְוֺתָ֖יו כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

[1 Kings 8:61: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.61/)

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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:343` of Mova's parse database.

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