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title: 1 Kings 18:32 (JPS 1917) — And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. Who acts: Elijah. 1 Kings 18:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 18:32 · JPS 1917

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And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

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**Who acts:** Elijah · **What happens:** build, make, contain, name, measure · **To what, where:** altar, name, trench, two measures, LORD, seed

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This is 1 Kings 18:32 · 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 (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:684
# text = And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Elijah | a altar |  | the name of the LORD |  | with the stones | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent altar=Theme with stone=Source |
| 2 | **make** | past | Elijah | a trench |  |  |  | about the altar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trench=Product |
| 3 | **contain** | would | Elijah *not said here* | two measures of seed |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot measure=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **measure** |  |  | seed |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּבְנֶ֧ה אֶת־הָאֲבָנִ֛ים מִזְבֵּ֖חַ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה וַיַּ֣עַשׂ תְּעָלָ֗ה כְּבֵית֙ סָאתַ֣יִם זֶ֔רַע סָבִ֖יב לַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

[1 Kings 18:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.32/)

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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:684` 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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