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title: 1 Kings 11:21 (JPS 1917) — And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 11:21 · JPS 1917

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And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh: 'Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.'

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**Who acts:** Hadad, David, Joab, me, I · **What happens:** hear, sleep, be, say, let, depart · **To what, where:** Egypt, Pharaoh, me, own country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 11:21 · 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 (Hadad, David, Joab, me), 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:429
# text = And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh: 'Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Hadad	Hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Hadad	Hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Hadad |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | David |  |  |  |  | with Hadad's fathers | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Joab |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hadad |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to pharaoh=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **depart** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | may | I |  |  | mine own country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַהֲדַ֞ד שָׁמַ֣ע בְּמִצְרַ֗יִם כִּֽי־שָׁכַ֤ב דָּוִד֙ עִם־אֲבֹתָ֔יו וְכִי־מֵ֖ת יוֹאָ֣ב שַֽׂר־הַצָּבָ֑א וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הֲדַד֙ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה שַׁלְּחֵ֖נִי וְאֵלֵ֥ךְ אֶל־אַרְצִֽי׃

[1 Kings 11:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.21/)

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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:429` of Mova's parse database.

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