--- title: 1 Kings 11:36 (JPS 1917) — And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may ha… · tree and pragmatics description: And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may have a lamp alway before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there. 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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 (I, David, My), 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:444 # text = And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may have a lamp alway before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 alway alway ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | future | I | one tribe | | | | unto David's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme | | 2 | **have** | may | David | a lamp | | Jerusalem | before Me | alway *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient | | 3 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | the city | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | My name | | there | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Goal | | 5 | **name** | | My | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְלִבְנ֖וֹ אֶתֵּ֣ן שֵֽׁבֶט־אֶחָ֑ד לְמַ֣עַן הֱיֽוֹת־נִ֣יר לְדָֽוִיד־עַ֠בְדִּי כָּֽל־הַיָּמִ֤ים ׀ לְפָנַי֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם הָעִיר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּחַ֣רְתִּי לִ֔י לָשׂ֥וּם שְׁמִ֖י שָֽׁם׃ [1 Kings 11:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.36/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:444` 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 11:35 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.443/) - next →: [1 Kings 11:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.445/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 11:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.36/)