--- title: 1 Kings 16:30 (JPS 1917) — And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the… · tree and pragmatics description: And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. Who acts: Ahab. 1 Kings 16:30 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.621/) [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/) / [16:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.30/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 16:30 · JPS 1917 And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. **Who acts:** Ahab · **What happens:** do, be, sight · **To what, where:** that, all, sight, LORD This is 1 Kings 16:30 · 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 (Ahab), 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:621 # text = And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Omri Omri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obj _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 above above ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Ahab | that | | all | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | the sight of the LORD | | evil *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | before Omri | | tree rules | | 4 | **sight** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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} וַיַּ֨עַשׂ אַחְאָ֧ב בֶּן־עָמְרִ֛י הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה מִכֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְפָנָֽיו׃ [1 Kings 16:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:621` 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 16:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.620/) - next →: [1 Kings 16:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.622/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 16:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.30/)