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title: 1 Kings 9:8 (JPS 1917) — and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one… · tree and pragmatics
description: and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? Who acts: house, one, commandments, LORD. 1 Kings 9:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency t
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# 1 Kings 9:8 · JPS 1917

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and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

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**Who acts:** house, one, commandments, LORD · **What happens:** be, become, pass, astonished, hiss, say · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 9:8 · 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 (house, one, commandments, 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:357
# text = and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	passeth	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	astonished	astonished	VERB	JJ	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hiss	hiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
33	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
38	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this house |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | shall | this house |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present | every one |  |  |  |  | by house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by it=Location |
| 4 | **astonished** | shall · passive |  | every one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hiss** | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto this land and this house; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וְהַבַּ֤יִת הַזֶּה֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה עֶלְי֔וֹן כָּל־עֹבֵ֥ר עָלָ֖יו יִשֹּׁ֣ם וְשָׁרָ֑ק וְאָמְר֗וּ עַל־מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ כָּ֔כָה לָאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּ֖את וְלַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה׃

[1 Kings 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.8/)

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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:357` of Mova's parse database.

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