--- title: 1 Kings 19:15 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Aram; Who acts: LORD, thou. 1 Kings 19:15 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.718/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/19/) / [19:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.15/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 19:15 · JPS 1917 And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Aram; **Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** say, go, return, come, anoint, be · **To what, where:** way, Hazael, king, Aram · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 19:15 · 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 (LORD, 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:718 # text = And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Aram; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 return return VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 24 comest come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 anoint anoint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 29 Hazael Hazael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Aram Aram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **return** | infinitive | | | | thy way | | to the wilderness of Damascus *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wilderness=Result | | 4 | **come** | present | thou | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **anoint** | shall | thou | Hazael | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent hazael=Result | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | king | | Aram | | | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו לֵ֛ךְ שׁ֥וּב לְדַרְכְּךָ֖ מִדְבַּ֣רָה דַמָּ֑שֶׂקוּבָ֗אתָ וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֧ אֶת־חֲזָאֵ֛ל לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עַל־אֲרָֽם׃ [1 Kings 19:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:718` 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 19:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.717/) - next →: [1 Kings 19:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.719/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 19:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.15/)