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title: 1 Kings 13:31 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying: 'When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. Who acts: prophet, I. 1 Kings 13:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# 1 Kings 13:31 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying: 'When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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**Who acts:** prophet, I · **What happens:** come, pass, bury, speak, say, be · **To what, where:** carcass, God, me, sepulchre, man, bones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 13:31 · 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 (prophet, I), 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:516
# text = And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying: 'When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
23	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
42	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | carcass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bury** | past · perfect | prophet | God |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | prophet |  |  |  |  | to prophet's sons | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to son=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | prophet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bury** | infinitive |  | me |  | the sepulchre | then |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in sepulchre=Destination |
| 8 | **bury** | present · passive |  | the man of God |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **lay** | infinitive |  | my bones |  | prophet's bones |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme beside bone=Destination |

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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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וַיְהִי֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י קָבְר֣וֹ אֹתוֹ֒ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֶל־בָּנָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר בְּמוֹתִי֙ וּקְבַרְתֶּ֣ם אֹתִ֔י בַּקֶּ֕בֶר אֲשֶׁ֛ר אִ֥ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים קָב֣וּר בּ֑וֹ אֵ֚צֶל עַצְמֹתָ֔יו הַנִּ֖יחוּ אֶת־עַצְמֹתָֽי׃

[1 Kings 13:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.31/)

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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:516` of Mova's parse database.

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