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title: 1 Kings 1:38 (JPS 1917) — So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. Who acts: Zadok, Solomon. 1 Kings 1:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 1:38 · JPS 1917

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So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

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**Who acts:** Zadok, Solomon · **What happens:** go down, cause, ride, bring · **To what, where:** Solomon, Gihon

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This is 1 Kings 1:38 · 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 (Zadok, Solomon), 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:38
# text = So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
2	Zadok	Zadok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Benaiah	Benaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Cherethites	Cherethites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Pelethites	Pelethites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Gihon	Gihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	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 | **go down** | past | Zadok and Nathan and Benaiah and the Cherethites and the Pelethites |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cause** | past | Zadok and Nathan and Benaiah and the Cherethites and the Pelethites *not said here* | Solomon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | to-infinitive | Solomon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon king David's mule | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Zadok and Nathan and Benaiah and the Cherethites and the Pelethites *not said here* | Solomon | Gihon |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gihon=Destination |

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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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וַיֵּ֣רֶד צָד֣וֹק הַ֠כֹּהֵן וְנָתָ֨ן הַנָּבִ֜יא וּבְנָיָ֣הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹיָדָ֗ע וְהַכְּרֵתִי֙ וְהַפְּלֵתִ֔י וַיַּרְכִּ֙בוּ֙ אֶת־שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה עַל־פִּרְדַּ֖ת הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֑ד וַיֹּלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ עַל־גִּחֽוֹן׃

[1 Kings 1:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.38/)

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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:38` of Mova's parse database.

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