--- title: 1 Kings 16:4 (JPS 1917) — Him that dieth of Baasa in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that… · tree and pragmatics description: Him that dieth of Baasa in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.' Who acts: dogs, fowls. 1 Kings 16:4 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.594/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/16/) / [16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.4/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 16:4 · JPS 1917 Him that dieth of Baasa in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.' **Who acts:** dogs, fowls · **What happens:** die, eat · **To what, where:** Baasa This is 1 Kings 16:4 · 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 (dogs, fowls), 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:594 # text = Him that dieth of Baasa in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.' 1 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 dislocated _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dieth die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Baasa Baasa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 dieth die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fowls fowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | | | | | | of Baasa; in the city | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in city=Attribute | | 2 | **eat** | shall | the dogs | | | | | Baasa *dislocated* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **die** | present | | | | | | of Baasa; in the field | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in field=Attribute | | 4 | **eat** | shall | the fowls of the air | Baasa | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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} הַמֵּ֤ת לְבַעְשָׁא֙ בָּעִ֔יר יֹֽאכְל֖וּ הַכְּלָבִ֑ים וְהַמֵּ֥ת לוֹ֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה יֹאכְל֖וּ ע֥וֹף הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ [1 Kings 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:594` 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 16:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.593/) - next →: [1 Kings 16:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.595/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.4/)