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title: 1 Kings 2:16 (JPS 1917) — And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto him: 'Say on.' Who acts: I, Adonijah. 1 Kings 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 2:16 · JPS 1917

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And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto him: 'Say on.'

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**Who acts:** I, Adonijah · **What happens:** ask, not deny, say, petition · **To what, where:** one petition, me, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 2:16 · 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 (I, Adonijah), 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:74
# text = And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto him: 'Say on.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	deny	deny	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | one petition of thee |  |  | now |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **deny** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Adonijah |  |  |  |  | unto Solomon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **petition** |  |  | thee |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁאֵלָ֤ה אַחַת֙ אָֽנֹכִי֙ שֹׁאֵ֣ל מֵֽאִתָּ֔ךְ אַל־תָּשִׁ֖בִי אֶת־פָּנָ֑י וַתֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו דַּבֵּֽר׃

[1 Kings 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.16/)

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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:74` 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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