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title: 1 Kings 2:22 (JPS 1917) — And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.' Who acts: king Solomon, thou, Abishag. 1 Kings 2:22
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# 1 Kings 2:22 · JPS 1917

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And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.'

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**Who acts:** king Solomon, thou, Abishag · **What happens:** answer, say, ask, be · **To what, where:** Abishag, kingdom, elder brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 2:22 · 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 (king Solomon, thou, Abishag), 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:81
# text = And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
17	Abishag	Abishag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Shunammite	Shunammite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Adonijah	Adonijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Abiathar	Abiathar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Zeruiah	Zeruiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
55	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | king Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king Solomon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Solomon's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · do-support | thou |  | Abishag |  |  | for Adonijah | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abishag=Recipient |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | the kingdom |  |  |  | for Abishag; for Abishag | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Abishag | mine elder brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיַּעַן֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְאִמּ֗וֹ וְלָמָה֩ אַ֨תְּ שֹׁאֶ֜לֶת אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֤ג הַשֻּׁנַמִּית֙ לַאֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּ וְשַֽׁאֲלִי־לוֹ֙ אֶת־הַמְּלוּכָ֔ה כִּ֛י ה֥וּא אָחִ֖י הַגָּד֣וֹל מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְלוֹ֙ וּלְאֶבְיָתָ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וּלְיוֹאָ֖ב בֶּן־צְרוּיָֽה׃פ

[1 Kings 2:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.22/)

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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:81` 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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