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title: 1 Kings 17:4 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have comm… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.' Who acts: thou, I. 1 Kings 17:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 17:4 · JPS 1917

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And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** be, drink, command, feed · **To what, where:** brook, ravens, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 17:4 · 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 (thou, I), 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:629
# text = And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | shall |  | brook |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | of the brook | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of brook=Source |
| 3 | **command** | present · perfect | I | the ravens |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **feed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee |  | there |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |

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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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וְהָיָ֖ה מֵהַנַּ֣חַל תִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וְאֶת־הָעֹרְבִ֣ים צִוִּ֔יתִי לְכַלְכֶּלְךָ֖ שָֽׁם׃

[1 Kings 17:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.4/)

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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:629` 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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