--- title: 1 Kings 1:48 (JPS 1917) — And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,… · tree and pragmatics description: And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.' Who acts: king, LORD, eyes. 1 Kings 1:48 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.51/) [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/) / [1:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.48/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 1:48 · JPS 1917 And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.' **Who acts:** king, LORD, eyes · **What happens:** say, bless, give, sit, see · **To what, where:** LORD, one, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 1:48 · 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 (king, LORD, eyes), 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:51 # text = And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 Blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: other - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | | the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **give** | present · perfect | the LORD | one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | | | my throne | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | | 5 | **see** | gerund | mine eyes | throne | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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} וְגַם־כָּ֖כָה אָמַ֣ר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ בָּר֨וּךְ יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֥ן הַיּ֛וֹם יֹשֵׁ֥ב עַל־כִּסְאִ֖י וְעֵינַ֥י רֹאֽוֹת׃ [1 Kings 1:48: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.48/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:51` 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 1:47 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.50/) - next →: [1 Kings 1:49 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.52/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 1:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.48/)