--- title: 1 Kings 21:18 (JPS 1917) — 'Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it. Who acts: you, Ahab king, king. 1 Kings 21:18 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.790/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/21/) / [21:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.18/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 21:18 · JPS 1917 'Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it. **Who acts:** you, Ahab king, king · **What happens:** arise, go down, meet, dwell, be, take · **To what, where:** Ahab king, Samaria, vineyard, possession This is 1 Kings 21:18 · 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 (you, Ahab king, king), 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:790 # text = 'Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Arise arise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 dwelleth dwell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Samaria Samaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 behold behold INTJ UH _ 24 discourse _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 vineyard vineyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Naboth Naboth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Ahab king of Israel | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | | 4 | **dwell** | present | Ahab king of Israel | | | Samaria | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in samaria=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | king | | | the vineyard | | of Naboth | tree rules | | 6 | **go down** | present · passive | king | | | | | down, whither *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | possession of possession | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | | 8 | **possess** | | | possession | | | | | nom possession «act 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} ק֣וּם רֵ֗ד לִקְרַ֛את אַחְאָ֥ב מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּשֹׁמְר֑וֹן הִנֵּה֙ בְּכֶ֣רֶם נָב֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־יָ֥רַד שָׁ֖ם לְרִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ [1 Kings 21:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:790` 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 21:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.789/) - next →: [1 Kings 21:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.791/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 21:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.18/)