--- title: 1 Kings 18:18 (JPS 1917) — And he answered: 'I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy fath… · tree and pragmatics description: And he answered: 'I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed the Baalim. Who acts: Ahab, I, ye, thou. 1 Kings 18:18 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.668/) [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/) / [18:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.18/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 18:18 · JPS 1917 And he answered: 'I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed the Baalim. **Who acts:** Ahab, I, ye, thou · **What happens:** answer, not trouble, forsake, follow, command · **To what, where:** Israel, commandments, Baalim, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 18:18 · 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 (Ahab, I, ye, thou), 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:668 # text = And he answered: 'I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed the Baalim. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 troubled trouble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 10 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 in in SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 34 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Baalim Baalim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ahab | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **trouble** | present · perfect | I | Israel | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus israel=Experiencer | | 3 | **forsake** | present · perfect | ye | the commandments of the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | present · perfect | thou | the Baalim | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baalim=Theme | | 5 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֤א עָכַ֙רְתִּי֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּ֥י אִם־אַתָּ֖ה וּבֵ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ בַּֽעֲזָבְכֶם֙ אֶת־מִצְוֺ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה וַתֵּ֖לֶךְ אַחֲרֵ֥י הַבְּעָלִֽים׃ [1 Kings 18:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:668` 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 18:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.667/) - next →: [1 Kings 18:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.669/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.18/)