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title: 1 Kings 2:17 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he wil… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he will not say thee nay — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.' Who acts: Solomon, I. 1 Kings 2:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 2:17 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he will not say thee nay — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.'

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**Who acts:** Solomon, I · **What happens:** say, speak, pray, not say, give · **To what, where:** thee, Abishag, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 2:17 · 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 (Solomon, I), 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:75
# text = And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he will not say thee nay — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	iobj	_	_
23	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	Abishag	Abishag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Shunammite	Shunammite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto Solomon | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | future | Solomon |  | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | Solomon | Abishag | me |  |  | to wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient abishag=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִמְרִי־נָא֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־יָשִׁ֖יב אֶת־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְיִתֶּן־לִ֛י אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֥ג הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

[1 Kings 2:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.17/)

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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:75` 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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