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title: 1 Kings 13:17 (JPS 1917) — For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bre… · tree and pragmatics
description: For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn back to go by the way that thou camest.' Who acts: word, Thou. 1 Kings 13:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 13:17 · JPS 1917

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For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn back to go by the way that thou camest.'

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**Who acts:** word, Thou · **What happens:** say, eat, drink, turn back, go, come · **To what, where:** bread, me, water, way, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 13:17 · 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 (word, Thou), 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:502
# text = For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn back to go by the way that thou camest.'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
34	camest	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the word of the LORD | bread | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | Thou | no bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | water |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **turn back** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location |
| 6 | **come** | present | thou | the way |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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}

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כִּֽי־דָבָ֤ר אֵלַי֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה לֹֽא־תֹאכַ֣ל לֶ֔חֶם וְלֹֽא־תִשְׁתֶּ֥ה שָׁ֖ם מָ֑יִם לֹא־תָשׁ֣וּב לָלֶ֔כֶת בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־הָלַ֥כְתָּ בָּֽהּ׃

[1 Kings 13:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:502` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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