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title: 1 Kings 9:28 (JPS 1917) — And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. Who acts: servants. 1 Kings 9:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 9:28 · JPS 1917

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And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** come, fetch, bring · **To what, where:** Ophir, gold

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This is 1 Kings 9:28 · 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 (servants), 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:378
# text = And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ophir	Ophir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | past | servants *= servant* |  |  | Ophir |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ophir=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fetch** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | king Solomon *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אוֹפִ֔ירָה וַיִּקְח֤וּ מִשָּׁם֙ זָהָ֔ב אַרְבַּע־מֵא֥וֹת וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים כִּכָּ֑ר וַיָּבִ֖אוּ אֶל־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃פ

[1 Kings 9:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.28/)

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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:378` 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.

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