--- title: 1 Kings 17:9 (JPS 1917) — 'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell t… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.' Who acts: you, Zarephath, I. 1 Kings 17:9 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.634/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/17/) / [17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.9/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 17:9 · JPS 1917 'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.' **Who acts:** you, Zarephath, I · **What happens:** arise, get, belong, dwell, command, sustain · **To what, where:** thee, Zarephath, Zidon, widow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 17:9 · 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 (you, Zarephath, 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:634 # text = 'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Arise arise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Zarephath Zarephath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 belongeth belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Zidon Zidon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dwell dwell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 behold behold INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 sustain sustain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thee | Zarephath | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | | 3 | **belong** | present | Zarephath | | Zidon | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dwell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **command** | present · perfect | I | a widow | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent widow=Theme | | 6 | **sustain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | 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} ק֣וּם לֵ֤ךְ צָרְפַ֙תָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְצִיד֔וֹן וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖ שָׁ֑ם הִנֵּ֨ה צִוִּ֥יתִי שָׁ֛ם אִשָּׁ֥ה אַלְמָנָ֖ה לְכַלְכְּלֶֽךָ׃ [1 Kings 17:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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