--- title: 1 Kings 18:4 (JPS 1917) — for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that O… · tree and pragmatics description: for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. — Who acts: it, Jezebel, Obadiah. 1 Kings 18:4 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.654/) [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/) / [18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.4/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 18:4 · JPS 1917 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. — **Who acts:** it, Jezebel, Obadiah · **What happens:** be, cut off, take, hide, feed · **To what, where:** prophets, hundred prophets, cave This is 1 Kings 18:4 · 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 (it, Jezebel, Obadiah), 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:654 # text = for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. — 1 for for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 so so ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 Jezebel Jezebel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 Obadiah Obadiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 csubj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 39 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cut off** | past | Jezebel | the prophets of the LORD | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prophet=Eventuality | | 3 | **take** | past | Obadiah | hundred prophets | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | past | Obadiah *not said here* | prophets *= prophet* | | a cave | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in cave=Location | | 5 | **feed** | past | Obadiah *not said here* | prophets *= prophet* | | | | with bread and water | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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} וַיְהִי֙ בְּהַכְרִ֣ית אִיזֶ֔בֶל אֵ֖ת נְבִיאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֨ח עֹבַדְיָ֜הוּ מֵאָ֣ה נְבִאִ֗ים וַֽיַּחְבִּיאֵ֞ם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אִישׁ֙ בַּמְּעָרָ֔ה וְכִלְכְּלָ֖ם לֶ֥חֶם וָמָֽיִם׃ [1 Kings 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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