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title: 1 Kings 20:3 (JPS 1917) — and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is… · tree and pragmatics
description: and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.' Who acts: Ben hadad, silver, wives. 1 Kings 20:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 20:3 · JPS 1917

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and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.'

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**Who acts:** Ben hadad, silver, wives · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** mine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 20:3 · 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 (Ben hadad, silver, wives), 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:728
# text = and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hadad	hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	goodliest	goodliest	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	appos	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	parataxis	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ben hadad |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Thy silver and thy gold | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | thy wives and thy children | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר בֶּנ־הֲדַ֔דבֶּנ־הֲדַ֔דכַּסְפְּךָ֥ וּֽזְהָבְךָ֖ לִֽי־ה֑וּא וְנָשֶׁ֧יךָ וּבָנֶ֛יךָ הַטּוֹבִ֖ים לִי־הֵֽם׃

[1 Kings 20:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.3/)

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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:728` 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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