1 Kings 18:4 · JPS 1917
for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. —
Who acts: it, Jezebel, Obadiah · What happens: be, cut off, take, hide, feed · To what, where: prophets, hundred prophets, cave
This is 1 Kings 18:4 · 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 (it, Jezebel, Obadiah), 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 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 so | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 so | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 so | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 cut | mark |
| 7 | Jezebel | Jezebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prophets | det |
| 11 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 LORD | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 LORD | det |
| 14 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 prophets | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 17 | Obadiah | Obadiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 so | csubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hundred | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 prophets | nummod |
| 21 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hid | cc |
| 24 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hid | obj |
| 26 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hid | nummod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cave | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cave | det |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hid | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fed | cc |
| 32 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hid | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fed | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 bread | case |
| 35 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fed | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 water | cc |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bread | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | 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 | is | past | it | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past | Jezebel | the prophets of the LORD | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prophet=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Obadiah | hundred prophets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | Obadiah not said here | prophets = prophet | a cave | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in cave=Location | |||
| 5 | feed | past | Obadiah not said here | prophets = prophet | with bread and water | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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 בְּהַכְרִ֣ית אִיזֶ֔בֶל אֵ֖ת נְבִיאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֨ח עֹבַדְיָ֜הוּ מֵאָ֣ה נְבִאִ֗ים וַֽיַּחְבִּיאֵ֞ם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אִישׁ֙ בַּמְּעָרָ֔ה וְכִלְכְּלָ֖ם לֶ֥חֶם וָמָֽיִם׃
1 Kings 18:4: 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:654 of Mova's parse database.
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