--- title: 1 Kings 21:25 (JPS 1917) — But there was none like unto Ahab, who did give himself over to do t… · tree and pragmatics description: But there was none like unto Ahab, who did give himself over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. Who acts: none, Ahab, Jezebel. 1 Kings 21:25 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.797/) [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/) / [21:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.25/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 21:25 · JPS 1917 But there was none like unto Ahab, who did give himself over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. **Who acts:** none, Ahab, Jezebel · **What happens:** be, give over, do, stir up, sight · **To what, where:** Ahab, that, sight, LORD This is 1 Kings 21:25 · 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 (none, Ahab, Jezebel), 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:797 # text = But there was none like unto Ahab, who did give himself over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 7 Ahab Ahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 over over ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 obj _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 28 Jezebel Jezebel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 stirred stir VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give over** | past · do-support | Ahab | Ahab | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ahab *not said here* | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | the sight of the LORD | | evil *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stir up** | past | Jezebel | the LORD | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whom=Patient | | 6 | **sight** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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} רַ֚ק לֹֽא־הָיָ֣ה כְאַחְאָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִתְמַכֵּ֔ר לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־הֵסַ֥תָּה אֹת֖וֹ אִיזֶ֥בֶל אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ [1 Kings 21:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:797` 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 21:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.796/) - next →: [1 Kings 21:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.798/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 21:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.25/)