--- title: 1 Kings 1:42 (JPS 1917) — While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest… · tree and pragmatics description: While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said: 'Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and bringest good tidings.' Who acts: Joab, Jonathan, Adonijah, thou. 1 Kings 1:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/1/) / [1:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.42/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 1:42 · JPS 1917 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said: 'Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and bringest good tidings.' **Who acts:** Joab, Jonathan, Adonijah, thou · **What happens:** speak, come, say, come in, be, bring · **To what, where:** worthy man, good tidings · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 1:42 · 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 (Joab, Jonathan, Adonijah, thou), 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:44 # text = While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said: 'Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and bringest good tidings.' 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 yet yet ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 behold behold INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Abiathar Abiathar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Adonijah Adonijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 27 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 bringest bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Joab | | | | yet | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | Jonathan | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Adonijah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come in** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | thou | a worthy man | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bring** | present | thou *not said here* | good tidings | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme | 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} עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ מְדַבֵּ֔ר וְהִנֵּ֧ה יוֹנָתָ֛ן בֶּן־אֶבְיָתָ֥ר הַכֹּהֵ֖ן בָּ֑א וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲדֹנִיָּ֙הוּ֙ בֹּ֔א כִּ֣י אִ֥ישׁ חַ֛יִל אַ֖תָּה וְט֥וֹב תְּבַשֵּֽׂר׃ [1 Kings 1:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.42/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:44` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 1:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.43/) - next →: [1 Kings 1:43 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.45/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 1:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.42/)