--- title: 1 Kings 18:13 (JPS 1917) — Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of… · tree and pragmatics description: Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? Who acts: I, Jezebel. 1 Kings 18:13 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.663/) [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/) / [18:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.13/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 18:13 · JPS 1917 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? **Who acts:** I, Jezebel · **What happens:** not tell, do, slay, hide, feed · **To what, where:** spirit, lord, prophets, hundred men, cave, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 18:13 · 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 (I, Jezebel), 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:663 # text = Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 11 Jezebel Jezebel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 'S 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=other, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | spirit | my lord | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **slay** | past | Jezebel | the prophets of the LORD | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Patient | | 4 | **hide** | past | I | hundred men of the LORD's prophets | | a cave | | by fifty | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Patient by fifty=Location | | 5 | **feed** | past | I *not said here* | men *= man* | | | | 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} הֲלֹֽא־הֻגַּ֤ד לַֽאדֹנִי֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֔יתִי בַּהֲרֹ֣ג אִיזֶ֔בֶל אֵ֖ת נְבִיאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וָאַחְבִּא֩ מִנְּבִיאֵ֨י יְהוָ֜ה מֵ֣אָה אִ֗ישׁ חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אִישׁ֙ בַּמְּעָרָ֔ה וָאֲכַלְכְּלֵ֖ם לֶ֥חֶם וָמָֽיִם׃ [1 Kings 18:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:663` 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 18:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.662/) - next →: [1 Kings 18:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.664/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.13/)