--- title: 1 Kings 18:19 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, a… · tree and pragmatics description: Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table.' 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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 (you, four prophets), 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:669 # text = Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table.' 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gather gather VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Carmel Carmel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Baal Baal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 21 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Asherah Asherah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 Jezebel Jezebel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gather** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all Israel and the prophets of Baal and the four prophets of the Asherah four hundred | me | | | unto mount Carmel | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent israel=Patient to i=Co-Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | the four prophets of the Asherah four hundred | | | Jezebel's table | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁלַ֨ח קְבֹ֥ץ אֵלַ֛י אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־הַ֣ר הַכַּרְמֶ֑ל וְאֶת־נְבִיאֵ֨י הַבַּ֜עַל אַרְבַּ֧ע מֵא֣וֹת וַחֲמִשִּׁ֗ים וּנְבִיאֵ֤י הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע מֵא֔וֹת אֹכְלֵ֖י שֻׁלְחַ֥ן אִיזָֽבֶל׃ [1 Kings 18:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:669` 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 18:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.668/) - next →: [1 Kings 18:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.670/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.19/)