1 Kings 16:31 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

Who acts: sight, it, Ahab · What happens: come, pass, be, walk, take, go · To what, where: light thing, sins, Baal, Ahab

This is 1 Kings 16:31 · 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 (sight, it, Ahab), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 thing	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 thing	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thing	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 thing	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	advcl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 walk	mark
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 walk	mark
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	csubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sins	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sins	det
21	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walk	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Jeroboam	case
23	Jeroboam	Jeroboam	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sins	nmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 son	det
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Jeroboam	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Nebat	case
27	Nebat	Nebat	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 son	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 took	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 wife	case
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
34	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 wife	appos
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 daughter	det
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wife	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 king	case
38	Ethbaal	Ethbaal	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 king	compound
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 daughter	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Zidonians	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Zidonians	det
42	Zidonians	Zidonians	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 king	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 served	cc
47	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
48	Baal	Baal	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 served	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 worshipped	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 worshipped	cc
51	worshipped	worship	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 worshipped	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	sight				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	sight not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past · perfect	it	a light thing			tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	Ahab		the sins of Jeroboam		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sin=Trajectory
5	take	past	Ahab			to wife result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result
6	go	past	Ahab not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	serve	past	Ahab not said here	Baal			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baal=Attribute
8	worship	past	Ahab not said here	Ahab			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

וַיְהִי֙ הֲנָקֵ֣ל לֶכְתּ֔וֹ בְּחַטֹּ֖אות יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּן־נְבָ֑ט וַיִּקַּ֨ח אִשָּׁ֜ה אֶת־אִיזֶ֗בֶל בַּת־אֶתְבַּ֙עַל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צִידֹנִ֔ים וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֣ד אֶת־הַבַּ֔עַל וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לֽוֹ׃

1 Kings 16:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:622 of Mova's parse database.

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