---
title: 1 Kings 18:6 (JPS 1917) — So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab we… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. Who acts: beasts, Ahab, Obadiah. 1 Kings 18:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.656/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.6/) / JPS 1

# 1 Kings 18:6 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** beasts, Ahab, Obadiah · **What happens:** divide, pass, go · **To what, where:** land, one way, way

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 1 Kings 18:6 · 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 (beasts, Ahab, 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:656
# text = So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Obadiah	Obadiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | beasts *= beast* | the land |  |  |  | between mules *= mule* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* |  |  | land |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme throughout it=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | Ahab | one way |  |  |  | by Ahab | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | Obadiah | another way |  |  |  | by Ahab | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַֽיְחַלְּק֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ לַֽעֲבָר־בָּ֑הּ אַחְאָ֞ב הָלַ֨ךְ בְּדֶ֤רֶךְ אֶחָד֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ וְעֹֽבַדְיָ֛הוּ הָלַ֥ךְ בְּדֶרֶךְ־אֶחָ֖ד לְבַדּֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.6/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:656` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [1 Kings 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.655/)
- next →: [1 Kings 18:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.657/)
- ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.6/)