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title: 1 Kings 21:24 (JPS 1917) — Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.' Who acts: dogs, fowls. 1 Kings 21:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 21:24 · JPS 1917

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Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.'

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**Who acts:** dogs, fowls · **What happens:** die, eat · **To what, where:** Jezebel

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This is 1 Kings 21:24 · 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 (dogs, fowls), 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:796
# text = Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.'
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dieth	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dieth	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of Ahab; in the city | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in city=Attribute |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | the dogs | Jezebel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in the field | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in field=Attribute |
| 4 | **eat** | shall | the fowls of the air | Jezebel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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הַמֵּ֤ת לְאַחְאָב֙ בָּעִ֔יר יֹאכְל֖וּ הַכְּלָבִ֑ים וְהַמֵּת֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה יֹאכְל֖וּ ע֥וֹף הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

[1 Kings 21:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.24/)

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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:796` 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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