--- title: 1 Kings 9:6 (JPS 1917) — But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, an… · tree and pragmatics description: But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Who acts: ye, you, I, My. 1 Kings 9:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.355/) [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/) / [9:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.6/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 9:6 · JPS 1917 But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; **Who acts:** ye, you, I, My · **What happens:** turn away, follow, ye, not keep, set, go · **To what, where:** Me, commandments, other gods, gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 9:6 · 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 (ye, you, I, My), 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:355 # text = But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ye ye VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 19 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 worship worship VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn away** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | ye | | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | ye *not said here* | Me | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **ye** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **keep** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | My commandments and My statutes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme | | 5 | **set** | present · perfect | I | My commandments and My statutes | | | before you | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before you=Destination | | 6 | **go** | shall | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **serve** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | other gods | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | | 8 | **worship** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | gods *= god* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 9 | **command** | | My | | | | | | nom commandment «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} אִם־שׁ֨וֹב תְּשֻׁב֜וּן אַתֶּ֤ם וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ מֵֽאַחֲרַ֔י וְלֹ֤א תִשְׁמְרוּ֙ מִצְוֺתַ֣י חֻקֹּתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם לָהֶֽם׃ [1 Kings 9:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:355` 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 9:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.354/) - next →: [1 Kings 9:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.356/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 9:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.6/)