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title: 1 Kings 17:19 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son.' And he took him out of her… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son.' And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. Who acts: son, breath. 1 Kings 17:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 17:19 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son.' And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

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**Who acts:** son, breath · **What happens:** say, give, take, carry up, abide, lay · **To what, where:** son, me, Elijah, bosom, upper chamber, own bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 17:19 · 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 (son, breath), 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:644
# text = And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son.' And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  |  | unto breath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | thy son | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | son | Elijah |  | breath's bosom |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **carry up** | past | son *not said here* | son |  | the upper chamber |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **abide** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | past | son *not said here* | son |  | son's own bed |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon bed=Destination |
| 7 | **bosom** |  | breath |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלֶ֖יהָ תְּנִֽי־לִ֣י אֶת־בְּנֵ֑ךְ וַיִּקָּחֵ֣הוּ מֵחֵיקָ֗הּ וַֽיַּעֲלֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־הָעֲלִיָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁר־הוּא֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב שָׁ֔ם וַיַּשְׁכִּבֵ֖הוּ עַל־מִטָּתֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 17:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.19/)

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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:644` of Mova's parse database.

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