--- title: 1 Kings 21:21 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee awa… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away, and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. 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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 (I), 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:793 # text = Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away, and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | future | I | evil | | | | upon thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | | 2 | **sweep away** | future | I *not said here* | thee | | | | away, utterly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Trajectory | | 3 | **cut off** | future | I *not said here* | every man child | | Ahab | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme from ahab=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **shut up** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **leave** | present · passive | | | | large | | in Israel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at large=Location | 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} הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֤יא אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ רָעָ֔ה וּבִעַרְתִּ֖י אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְאַחְאָב֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר וְעָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [1 Kings 21:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:793` 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 21:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.792/) - next →: [1 Kings 21:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.794/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 21:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.21/)