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title: 1 Kings 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired aga… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasa smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. Who acts: Baasa, Gibbethon, Nadab. 1 Kings 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# 1 Kings 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasa smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

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**Who acts:** Baasa, Gibbethon, Nadab · **What happens:** conspire, smite, belong, lay · **To what, where:** Asa, Gibbethon, siege

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This is 1 Kings 15:27 · 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 (Baasa, Gibbethon, Nadab), 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:583
# text = And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasa smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	Baasa	Baasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ahijah	Ahijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Issachar	Issachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	conspired	conspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Baasa	Baasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Gibbethon	Gibbethon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	Nadab	Nadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
38	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Gibbethon	Gibbethon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conspire** | past | Baasa of the house of Issachar |  |  |  |  | against Asa | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against he=Maleficiary |
| 2 | **smite** | past | Baasa | Asa |  | Gibbethon |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **belong** | past | Gibbethon |  |  |  |  | to the Philistines | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | past · progressive | Nadab and all Israel | siege | Gibbethon |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |

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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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וַיִּקְשֹׁ֨ר עָלָ֜יו בַּעְשָׁ֤א בֶן־אֲחִיָּה֙ לְבֵ֣ית יִשָּׂשכָ֔ר וַיַּכֵּ֣הוּ בַעְשָׁ֔א בְּגִבְּת֖וֹן אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וְנָדָב֙ וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל צָרִ֖ים עַֽל־גִּבְּתֽוֹן׃

[1 Kings 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.27/)

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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:583` 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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