--- title: 1 Kings 18:2 (JPS 1917) — And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. · tree and pragmatics description: And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. Who acts: Elijah. 1 Kings 18:2 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.651/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/18/) / [18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.2/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. **Who acts:** Elijah · **What happens:** go, show · **To what, where:** Elijah This is 1 Kings 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Elijah), 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:651 # text = And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **go** | past | Elijah | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Elijah *not said here* | Elijah | | | | unto Ahab | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | 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} וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֵֽלִיָּ֔הוּ לְהֵרָא֖וֹת אֶל־אַחְאָ֑ב וְהָרָעָ֖ב חָזָ֥ק בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ [1 Kings 18:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.2/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab.** 2. [And the famine was sore in Samaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.652/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:651` 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 18:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.650/) - next →: [1 Kings 18:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.652/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.2/)