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title: 1 Kings 2:28 (JPS 1917) — And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. Who acts: tidings, Joab. 1 Kings 2:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 2:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom.

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**Who acts:** tidings, Joab · **What happens:** come, turn, not turn · **To what, where:** Joab

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This is 1 Kings 2:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (tidings, Joab), 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:87
# text = And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Joab	Joab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Adonijah	Adonijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | the tidings |  |  | Joab |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to joab=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past · perfect | Joab |  |  |  | after Adonijah |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **turn** | past | Joab |  |  |  | after Absalom |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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וְהַשְּׁמֻעָה֙ בָּ֣אָה עַד־יוֹאָ֔ב כִּ֣י יוֹאָ֗ב נָטָה֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֲדֹנִיָּ֔ה וְאַחֲרֵ֥י אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם לֹ֣א נָטָ֑ה וַיָּ֤נָס יוֹאָב֙ אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל יְהוָ֔ה וַֽיַּחֲזֵ֖ק בְּקַרְנ֥וֹת הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

[1 Kings 2:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom.**
2. [And Joab fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.88/)

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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:87` 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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