1 Kings 18:40 · JPS 1917

And Elijah said unto them: 'Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.' And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Who acts: Elijah, one, people · What happens: say, take, let, escape, bring down, slay · To what, where: prophets, one, people, brook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Kings 18:40 · 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, one, people), 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 said	cc
2	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Take	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Take	punct
8	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prophets	det
10	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Take	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Baal	case
12	Baal	Baal	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prophets	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 Take	parataxis
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 let	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Take	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Take	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brought	cc
28	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 brought	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 brook	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 brook	det
34	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
35	Kishon	Kishon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 brook	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 slew	cc
38	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 slew	obj
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 slew	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Elijah			unto people	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		the prophets of Baal			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme
3	let	infinitive		one of people			tree rules
4	escape	infinitive	one of people not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	people	prophets = prophet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	bring down	past	Elijah	people	the brook		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to brook=Destination
7	slay	past	Elijah not said here	people	there		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ לָהֶ֜ם תִּפְשׂ֣וּ ׀ אֶת־נְבִיאֵ֣י הַבַּ֗עַל אִ֛ישׁ אַל־יִמָּלֵ֥ט מֵהֶ֖ם וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂ֑וּם וַיּוֹרִדֵ֤ם אֵלִיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־נַ֣חַל קִישׁ֔וֹן וַיִּשְׁחָטֵ֖ם שָֽׁם׃

1 Kings 18:40: 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:693 of Mova's parse database.

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