--- title: 1 Kings 20:11 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him tha… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.' Who acts: king. 1 Kings 20:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.736/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/20/) / [20:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.11/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 20:11 · JPS 1917 And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.' **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** answer, say, tell, not let, gird, boast · **To what, where:** king, armour · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 20:11 · 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 (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:736 # text = And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 18 girdeth gird VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 boast boast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 putteth put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the king of Israel | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king of Israel *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive | | king | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **gird** | present | | | | king's armour | | | tree rules | | 6 | **boast** *speech: other* | infinitive | king *not said here* | king | | | | as king | tree rules | | 7 | **put off** | present | | armour | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | 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} וַיַּ֤עַן מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דַּבְּר֔וּ אַל־יִתְהַלֵּ֥ל חֹגֵ֖ר כִּמְפַתֵּֽחַ׃ [1 Kings 20:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:736` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 20:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.735/) - next →: [1 Kings 20:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.737/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 20:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.11/)