--- title: 1 Kings 17:17 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, t… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. Who acts: jar, son, sickness, breath. 1 Kings 17:17 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.642/) [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/) / [17:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.17/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 17:17 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. **Who acts:** jar, son, sickness, breath · **What happens:** come, pass, fall, be, leave · **To what, where:** breath This is 1 Kings 17:17 · 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 (jar, son, sickness, breath), 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:642 # text = And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 csubj _ _ 24 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 35 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | jar | | | | after this things | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | jar *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | the son of the woman | | | | | sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | son's sickness | | | | | sore *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | no breath | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | no breath *not said here* | | | | in son | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Result | 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} וַיְהִ֗י אַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה חָלָ֕ה בֶּן־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה בַּעֲלַ֣ת הַבָּ֑יִת וַיְהִ֤י חָלְיוֹ֙ חָזָ֣ק מְאֹ֔ד עַ֛ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־נֽוֹתְרָה־בּ֖וֹ נְשָׁמָֽה׃ [1 Kings 17:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:642` 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 17:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.641/) - next →: [1 Kings 17:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.643/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 17:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.17/)