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title: 1 Kings 14:4 (JPS 1917) — Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. Who acts: Ahijah, reason. 1 Kings 14:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

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**Who acts:** Ahijah, reason · **What happens:** not see, set · **To what, where:** eyes

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This is 1 Kings 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Ahijah, reason), 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:524
# text = Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Ahijah	Ahijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | could | Ahijah |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set** | past · passive | reason of Ahijah's age | Ahijah's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |

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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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וַתַּ֤עַשׂ כֵּן֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת יָרָבְעָ֔ם וַתָּ֙קָם֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ שִׁלֹ֔ה וַתָּבֹ֖א בֵּ֣ית אֲחִיָּ֑ה וַאֲחִיָּ֙הוּ֙ לֹֽא־יָכֹ֣ל לִרְא֔וֹת כִּ֛י קָ֥מוּ עֵינָ֖יו מִשֵּׂיבֽוֹ׃ס

[1 Kings 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.523/)
2. **Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.**

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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:524` 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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