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title: 1 Kings 1:53 (JPS 1917) — So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. · tree and pragmatics
description: So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. Who acts: king Solomon, men. 1 Kings 1:53 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 1:53 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.

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**Who acts:** king Solomon, men · **What happens:** send, bring down · **To what, where:** Solomon, altar

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This is 1 Kings 1:53 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 Solomon, men), 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:56
# text = So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RP	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | king Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring down** | past | men *= man* | Solomon |  | the altar |  | down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from altar=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה וַיֹּרִדֻ֙הוּ֙ מֵעַ֣ל הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וַיָּבֹ֕א וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ל֥וֹ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לֵ֥ךְ לְבֵיתֶֽךָ׃פ

[1 Kings 1:53: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.53/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.**
2. [And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.57/)

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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:56` 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.

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