--- title: 1 Kings 18:39 (JPS 1917) — And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they s… · tree and pragmatics description: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.' Who acts: people, LORD. 1 Kings 18:39 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.692/) [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/) / [18:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.39/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 18:39 · JPS 1917 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.' **Who acts:** people, LORD · **What happens:** see, fall, say, be · **To what, where:** water, faces, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 18:39 · 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 (people, LORD), 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:692 # text = And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 dislocated _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 dislocated _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | all people | water | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **fall** | past | people | | | people's faces | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | LORD | God | | | | the LORD *dislocated* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | LORD | God | | | | the LORD *dislocated* | tree rules | 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} וַיַּרְא֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים יְהוָ֖ה ה֥וּא הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ [1 Kings 18:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.39/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:692` 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 18:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.691/) - next →: [1 Kings 18:40 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.693/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 18:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.39/)