--- title: 1 Kings 20:17 (JPS 1917) — And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; an… · tree and pragmatics description: And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying: 'There are men come out from Samaria.' Who acts: young men, Ben hadad, provinces. 1 Kings 20:17 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.743/) [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/) / [20:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.17/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 20:17 · JPS 1917 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying: 'There are men come out from Samaria.' **Who acts:** young men, Ben hadad, provinces · **What happens:** go out, send out, tell, say, come out · **To what, where:** hadad, men, Samaria · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 20:17 · 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 (young men, Ben hadad, provinces), 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:743 # text = And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying: 'There are men come out from Samaria.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 provinces province NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 hadad Hadad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Samaria Samaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | the young men of the princes of the provinces | | | | | first *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **send out** | past | Ben hadad | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | provinces *= province* | | hadad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | provinces *= province* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come out** | participle | | men *not said here* | | Samaria | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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} וַיֵּצְא֗וּ נַעֲרֵ֛י שָׂרֵ֥י הַמְּדִינ֖וֹת בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח בֶּנ־הֲדַ֗דבֶּנ־הֲדַ֗ד וַיַּגִּ֤ידוּ לוֹ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אֲנָשִׁ֕ים יָצְא֖וּ מִשֹּׁמְרֽוֹן׃ [1 Kings 20:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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