--- title: 1 Kings 2:38 (JPS 1917) — And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the k… · tree and pragmatics description: And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.' And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. 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And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. **Who acts:** Shimei, saying, lord, servant · **What happens:** say, be, do, dwell · **To what, where:** Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 2:38 · 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 (Shimei, saying, lord, servant), 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:98 # text = And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.' And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Shimei Shimei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Shimei Shimei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shimei | | | | | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the saying | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | my lord | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | future | thy servant | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dwell** | past | Shimei | | | Jerusalem | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jerusalem=Location | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שִׁמְעִ֤י לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ ט֣וֹב הַדָּבָ֔ר כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר דִּבֶּר֙ אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כֵּ֖ן יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב שִׁמְעִ֛י בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים׃ס [1 Kings 2:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:98` 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 2:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.97/) - next →: [1 Kings 2:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.99/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 2:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.38/)