1 Kings 18:31 · JPS 1917
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying: 'Israel shall be thy name.'
Who acts: Elijah, word, Israel · What happens: take, come, say, be, word · To what, where: twelve stones, name, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 1 Kings 18:31 · 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 (Elijah, word, Israel), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stones | nummod |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 number | punct |
| 7 | according | according | ADP | _ | 10 number | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 according | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tribes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tribes | det |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sons | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sons | det |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tribes | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Jacob | case |
| 18 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 20 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 came | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 LORD | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nmod |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Jacob | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 came | advcl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 name | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 name | punct |
| 32 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 name | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 name | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 name | cop |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 name | nmod:poss |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 name | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Elijah | twelve stones | according the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the word of the LORD | unto Jacob | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the word of the LORD not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | shall | Israel | thy name | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ שְׁתֵּ֤ים עֶשְׂרֵה֙ אֲבָנִ֔ים כְּמִסְפַּ֖ר שִׁבְטֵ֣י בְנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֑ב אֲשֶׁר֩ הָיָ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִהְיֶ֥ה שְׁמֶֽךָ׃
1 Kings 18:31: 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:683 of Mova's parse database.
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