--- title: 1 Kings 17:14 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall no… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not be spent, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the land.' 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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 (LORD, cruse), 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:639 # text = For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not be spent, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the land.' 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cruse cruse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sendeth send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **spend** | shall · passive | | the jar of meal | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 3 | **fail** | shall | the cruse of oil | | | | day | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **send** | present | the LORD | the day | | | | upon the land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=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} כִּ֣י כֹה֩ אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כַּ֤ד הַקֶּ֙מַח֙ לֹ֣א תִכְלָ֔ה וְצַפַּ֥חַת הַשֶּׁ֖מֶן לֹ֣א תֶחְסָ֑ר עַ֠ד י֧וֹם תֵּת־יְהוָ֛ה גֶּ֖שֶׁם עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃ [1 Kings 17:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:639` 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 17:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.638/) - next →: [1 Kings 17:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.640/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 17:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.14/)