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title: 1 Kings 18:11 (JPS 1917) — And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here. · tree and pragmatics
description: And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here. Who acts: thou, Elijah. 1 Kings 18:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 18:11 · JPS 1917

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And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here.

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**Who acts:** thou, Elijah · **What happens:** say, go, tell, be · **To what, where:** lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 18:11 · 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 (thou, 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:661
# text = And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sayest	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | thou |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | thy lord |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | Elijah |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְעַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֣ה אֹמֵ֑ר לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר לַאדֹנֶ֖יךָ הִנֵּ֥ה אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃

[1 Kings 18:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.11/)

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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:661` 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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