--- title: 1 Kings 15:4 (JPS 1917) — Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp i… · tree and pragmatics description: Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; Who acts: LORD. 1 Kings 15:4 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.558/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/15/) / [15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.4/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 15:4 · JPS 1917 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** give, set up, establish · **To what, where:** lamp, God, Jerusalem, son This is 1 Kings 15:4 · 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 (LORD), 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:558 # text = Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; 1 Nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 establish establish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the LORD | a lamp | God | Jerusalem | | for David's sake; nevertheless *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lamp=Theme for sake=Asset | | 2 | **set up** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | LORD's son | | | after LORD | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient son=Result | | 3 | **establish** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | Jerusalem | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Patient | 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} כִּ֚י לְמַ֣עַן דָּוִ֔ד נָתַן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהָ֥יו ל֛וֹ נִ֖יר בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְהָקִ֤ים אֶת־בְּנוֹ֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וּֽלְהַעֲמִ֖יד אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ [1 Kings 15:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:558` 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 15:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.557/) - next →: [1 Kings 15:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.559/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.4/)