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title: 1 Kings 17:18 (JPS 1917) — And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man o… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?' Who acts: breath, I, thou. 1 Kings 17:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 17:18 · JPS 1917

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And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?'

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**Who acts:** breath, I, thou · **What happens:** say, have, do, come, bring, slay · **To what, where:** sin, remembrance, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 17:18 · 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 (breath, I, thou), 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:643
# text = And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	vocative	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
22	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | breath |  |  |  |  | unto Elijah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | thou *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | thou |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | my sin |  | remembrance |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sin=Theme to remembrance=Destination |
| 6 | **slay** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | my son |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ מַה־לִּ֥י וָלָ֖ךְ אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים בָּ֧אתָ אֵלַ֛י לְהַזְכִּ֥יר אֶת־עֲוֺנִ֖י וּלְהָמִ֥ית אֶת־בְּנִֽי׃

[1 Kings 17:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.18/)

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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:643` 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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