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title: 1 Kings 18:16 (JPS 1917) — So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet El… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. Who acts: Obadiah, Ahab. 1 Kings 18:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 18:16 · JPS 1917

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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

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**Who acts:** Obadiah, Ahab · **What happens:** go, meet, tell · **To what, where:** Ahab, Elijah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 18:16 · 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 (Obadiah, Ahab), 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:666
# text = So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Obadiah	Obadiah	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	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
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	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Obadiah |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Obadiah *not said here* | Ahab |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahab=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Obadiah *not said here* |  | Ahab |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** | past | Ahab |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Ahab *not said here* | Elijah |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elijah=Co-Agent |

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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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וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ עֹבַדְיָ֛הוּ לִקְרַ֥את אַחְאָ֖ב וַיַּגֶּד־ל֑וֹ וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אַחְאָ֖ב לִקְרַ֥את אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃

[1 Kings 18:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.16/)

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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:666` 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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