--- title: 1 Kings 13:8 (JPS 1917) — And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half th… · tree and pragmatics description: And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place. Who acts: man, thou, I. 1 Kings 13:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.493/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/13/) / [13:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.8/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 13:8 · JPS 1917 And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place. **Who acts:** man, thou, I · **What happens:** say, give, not go in, eat, drink · **To what, where:** house, me, bread, water, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 13:8 · 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 (man, thou, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:1KI:493 # text = And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 12 If if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 19 det:predet _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 32 cc _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc _ _ 35 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man of God | | | | | unto the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | thy house | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go in** | future | I | | | | | with thee | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thou=Beneficiary | | 4 | **eat** | future | I | bread | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | | 5 | **drink** | infinitive | I *not said here* | water | | this place | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 {#hebrew} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אִישׁ־הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אִם־תִּתֶּן־לִי֙ אֶת־חֲצִ֣י בֵיתֶ֔ךָ לֹ֥א אָבֹ֖א עִמָּ֑ךְ וְלֹֽא־אֹ֤כַל לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א אֶשְׁתֶּה־מַּ֔יִם בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ [1 Kings 13:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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