--- title: 1 Kings 2:37 (JPS 1917) — For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, kn… · tree and pragmatics description: For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head.' Who acts: thou, blood. 1 Kings 2:37 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.97/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/2/) / [2:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 2:37 · JPS 1917 For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head.' **Who acts:** thou, blood · **What happens:** go out, pass, know, die, be · **To what, where:** day, brook · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 2:37 · 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 (thou, blood), 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:97 # text = For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head.' 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 5 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 6 goest go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 passest pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 brook brook NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 Kidron Kidron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 know know VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 22 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 surely surely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 26 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | present | thou | the day *not said here* | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | present | thou *not said here* | | | the brook | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over brook=Location | | 3 | **know** | infinitive | thou | | | | day | for certain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **die** | shall | thou | | | | | surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | shall | thy blood | | | | | upon thine own head | tree rules | 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} וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּי֣וֹם צֵאתְךָ֗ וְעָֽבַרְתָּ֙ אֶת־נַ֣חַל קִדְר֔וֹן יָדֹ֥עַ תֵּדַ֖ע כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת תָּמ֑וּת דָּמְךָ֖ יִהְיֶ֥ה בְרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃ [1 Kings 2:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:97` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 2:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.96/) - next →: [1 Kings 2:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.98/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 2:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/)