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title: 1 Kings 15:19 (JPS 1917) — 'There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.' Who acts: league, I, king. 1 Kings 15:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# 1 Kings 15:19 · JPS 1917

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'There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.'

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**Who acts:** league, I, king · **What happens:** be, send, go, break, depart · **To what, where:** present, league

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This is 1 Kings 15:19 · 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 (league, I, king), 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:574
# text = 'There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Baasa	Baasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
39	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **be** | present | a league between me between my father and thy father |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present · perfect | I | a present of silver and gold |  |  |  | unto thee | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | infinitive |  | thy league |  |  |  | with Baasa king of Israel | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent league=Patient with king=Instrument |
| 5 | **depart** | may | king |  |  |  |  | from me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=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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בְּרִית֙ בֵּינִ֣י וּבֵינֶ֔ךָ בֵּ֥ין אָבִ֖י וּבֵ֣ין אָבִ֑יךָ הִנֵּה֩ שָׁלַ֨חְתִּֽי לְךָ֥ שֹׁ֙חַד֙ כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֔ב לֵ֣ךְ הָפֵ֗רָה אֶת־בְּרִֽיתְךָ֙ אֶת־בַּעְשָׁ֣א מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה מֵעָלָֽי׃

[1 Kings 15:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.19/)

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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:574` of Mova's parse database.

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