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title: 1 Kings 10:10 (JPS 1917) — And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. Who acts: Israel, such abundance, queen. 1 Kings 10:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# 1 Kings 10:10 · JPS 1917

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And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

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**Who acts:** Israel, such abundance, queen · **What happens:** give, come · **To what, where:** hundred talents, king, king Solomon

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This is 1 Kings 10:10 · 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 (Israel, such abundance, queen), 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:388
# text = And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **give** | past | Israel | hundred talents of gold and spices | the king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient talent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | such abundance of spices as these |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | the queen of Sheba |  | king Solomon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to solomon=Recipient |

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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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וַתִּתֵּ֨ן לַמֶּ֜לֶךְ מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים ׀ כִּכַּ֣ר זָהָ֗ב וּבְשָׂמִ֛ים הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹ֖ד וְאֶ֣בֶן יְקָרָ֑ה לֹא־בָא֩ כַבֹּ֨שֶׂם הַה֥וּא עוֹד֙ לָרֹ֔ב אֲשֶׁר־נָתְנָ֥ה מַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָ֖א לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

[1 Kings 10:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.10/)

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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:388` 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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