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title: 1 Kings 20:16 (JPS 1917) — But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the k… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. Who acts: Ben hadad, thirty kings. 1 Kings 20:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 20:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

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**Who acts:** Ben hadad, thirty kings · **What happens:** drink, help · **To what, where:** hadad, booths

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This is 1 Kings 20:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, thirty kings), 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:742
# text = But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hadad	hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **drink** | past · progressive | Ben hadad and the kings | hadad |  | the booths |  | drunk *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | past | the thirty kings |  | hadad |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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וַיֵּצְא֖וּ בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם וּבֶנ־הֲדַד֩בֶנ־הֲדַד֩ שֹׁתֶ֨ה שִׁכּ֜וֹר בַּסֻּכּ֗וֹת ה֧וּא וְהַמְּלָכִ֛ים שְׁלֹשִֽׁים־וּשְׁנַ֥יִם מֶ֖לֶךְ עֹזֵ֥ר אֹתֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 20:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And they went out at noon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.741/)
2. **But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.**

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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:742` 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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