--- title: 1 Kings 13:24 (JPS 1917) — And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and h… · tree and pragmatics description: And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the carcass. Who acts: LORD, lion, ass. 1 Kings 13:24 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.509/) [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/) / [13:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.24/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 13:24 · JPS 1917 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the carcass. **Who acts:** LORD, lion, ass · **What happens:** gone, meet, slay, cast, stand · **To what, where:** LORD, carcass, way This is 1 Kings 13:24 · 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 (LORD, lion, ass), 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:509 # text = And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the carcass. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 gone gone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 carcass carcass NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 carcass carcass NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gone** | past · passive | LORD | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | past | a lion | LORD | | | | by the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **slay** | past | a lion *not said here* | LORD | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **cast** | past · passive | | LORD's carcass | | the way | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in way=Destination | | 5 | **stand** | past | the ass | | | | | by carcass | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location | | 6 | **stand** | past | the lion | | | | | by the carcass | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by carcass=Location | 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} וַיֵּ֕לֶךְ וַיִּמְצָאֵ֧הוּ אַרְיֵ֛ה בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ וַתְּהִ֤י נִבְלָתוֹ֙ מֻשְׁלֶ֣כֶת בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְהַחֲמוֹר֙ עֹמֵ֣ד אֶצְלָ֔הּ וְהָ֣אַרְיֵ֔ה עֹמֵ֖ד אֵ֥צֶל הַנְּבֵלָֽה׃ [1 Kings 13:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:509` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 13:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.508/) - next →: [1 Kings 13:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.510/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 13:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.13.24/)