1 Kings 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
Who acts: Ahijah, reason · What happens: not see, set · To what, where: eyes
This is 1 Kings 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Ahijah, reason), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | Ahijah | Ahijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux:pass |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 reason | case |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 age | nmod:poss |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reason | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | Ahijah | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | reason of Ahijah's age | Ahijah's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
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
וַתַּ֤עַשׂ כֵּן֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת יָרָבְעָ֔ם וַתָּ֙קָם֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ שִׁלֹ֔ה וַתָּבֹ֖א בֵּ֣ית אֲחִיָּ֑ה וַאֲחִיָּ֙הוּ֙ לֹֽא־יָכֹ֣ל לִרְא֔וֹת כִּ֛י קָ֥מוּ עֵינָ֖יו מִשֵּׂיבֽוֹ׃ס
1 Kings 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah.
- Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:524 of Mova's parse database.
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