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title: 1 Kings 21:23 (JPS 1917) — And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezeb… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel. Who acts: LORD, dogs. 1 Kings 21:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 21:23 · JPS 1917

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And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel.

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**Who acts:** LORD, dogs · **What happens:** speak, say, eat · **To what, where:** Jezebel, moat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 21:23 · 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, dogs), 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:795
# text = And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jezreel	Jezreel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | of Jezebel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | shall | the dogs | Jezebel |  | the moat of Jezreel |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jezebel=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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וְגַ֨ם־לְאִיזֶ֔בֶל דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הַכְּלָבִ֛ים יֹאכְל֥וּ אֶת־אִיזֶ֖בֶל בְּחֵ֥ל יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃

[1 Kings 21:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.23/)

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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:795` 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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