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title: 1 Kings 11:22 (JPS 1917) — Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?' And he answered: 'Nothing; howbeit let me depart in any wise.' Who acts: Pharaoh, thou, me. 1 Kings 11:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 11:22 · JPS 1917

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Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?' And he answered: 'Nothing; howbeit let me depart in any wise.'

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, thou, me · **What happens:** say, lack, seek, go, answer, let · **To what, where:** own country, me, wise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 11:22 · 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 (Pharaoh, thou, 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:430
# text = Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?' And he answered: 'Nothing; howbeit let me depart in any wise.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lacked	lack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seekest	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	ccomp	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
43	wise	wise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: suggest
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh |  |  |  | then | unto Hadad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lack** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | with me | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | thine own country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | howbeit *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **depart** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | any wise |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֧אמֶר ל֣וֹ פַרְעֹ֗ה כִּ֠י מָה־אַתָּ֤ה חָסֵר֙ עִמִּ֔י וְהִנְּךָ֥ מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ לָלֶ֣כֶת אֶל־אַרְצֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ לֹ֔א כִּ֥י שַׁלֵּ֖חַ תְּשַׁלְּחֵֽנִי׃

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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:430` 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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