--- title: 1 Kings 9:4 (JPS 1917) — And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father wa… · tree and pragmatics description: And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; Who acts: thou, David, I, Mine. 1 Kings 9:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.353/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/9/) / [9:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.4/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 9:4 · JPS 1917 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; **Who acts:** thou, David, I, Mine · **What happens:** walk, do, accord, command, keep, ordain · **To what, where:** integrity, thee, statutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 9:4 · 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, David, I, Mine), 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:353 # text = And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 integrity integrity NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 uprightness uprightness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 30 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 case _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 wilt will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 42 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 Mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | future | thou | | | | before Me | as thee | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory | | 2 | **walk** | past | David | | | integrity of heart and uprightness | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in integrity=Trajectory | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | accord all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **command** | present · perfect | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | future | thou *not said here* | My statutes and Mine ordinances | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme | | 7 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְאַתָּ֞ה אִם־תֵּלֵ֣ךְ לְפָנַ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הָלַ֜ךְ דָּוִ֤ד אָבִ֙יךָ֙ בְּתָם־לֵבָ֣ב וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁר לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת כְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֑יךָ חֻקַּ֥י וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃ [1 Kings 9:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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