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title: 1 Kings 1:53 (JPS 1917) — And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.' Who acts: Solomon. 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 2 of 2

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And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'

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**Who acts:** Solomon · **What happens:** come, prostrate, say, go · **To what, where:** Solomon, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 1:53 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Solomon), 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:57
# text = And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prostrate** | past | Solomon *not said here* | Solomon |  |  | before king Solomon |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  | unto Adonijah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | thy house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.56/)
2. **And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'**

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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:57` 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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