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title: 1 Kings 1:9 (JPS 1917) — And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zohele… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants; Who acts: Adonijah, stone. 1 Kings 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# 1 Kings 1:9 · JPS 1917

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And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants;

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**Who acts:** Adonijah, stone · **What happens:** slay, be, call · **To what, where:** sheep, En rogel, brethren · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 1:9 · 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 (Adonijah, stone), 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:8
# text = And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Adonijah	Adonijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fatlings	fatling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Zoheleth	Zoheleth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	En	en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	rogel	rogel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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 | **slay** | past | Adonijah | sheep and oxen and fatlings |  |  |  | by the stone of Zoheleth | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the stone of Zoheleth |  |  | En rogel |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past | Adonijah | Adonijah's brethren and all men of Judah |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brethren=Recipient |

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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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וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח אֲדֹנִיָּ֗הוּ צֹ֤אן וּבָקָר֙ וּמְרִ֔יא עִ֚ם אֶ֣בֶנ הַזֹּחֶ֔לֶת אֶ֣בֶנ הַזֹּחֶ֔לֶת אֲשֶׁר־אֵ֖צֶל עֵ֣ינ רֹגֵ֑ל עֵ֣ינ רֹגֵ֑ל וַיִּקְרָ֗א אֶת־כָּל־אֶחָיו֙ בְּנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וּלְכָל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה עַבְדֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

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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:8` of Mova's parse database.

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