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title: 1 Kings 21:29 (JPS 1917) — 'Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.' Who acts: thou, Ahab, I. 1 Kings 21:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 21:29 · JPS 1917

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'Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.'

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**Who acts:** thou, Ahab, I · **What happens:** see, humble, not bring, bring · **To what, where:** Ahab, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 21:29 · 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 (thou, Ahab, 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:801
# text = 'Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	humbleth	humble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	humbleth	humble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **humble** | present | Ahab | Ahab |  |  | before Me |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **humble** | present | Ahab | Ahab |  |  | before Me |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **bring** | future | I | the evil |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | future | I | the evil |  |  | day | upon Ahab's house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |

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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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הֲ‍ֽרָאִ֔יתָ כִּֽי־נִכְנַ֥ע אַחְאָ֖ב מִלְּפָנָ֑י יַ֜עַן כִּֽי־נִכְנַ֣ע מִפָּנַ֗י לֹֽא־אָבִ֤יא הָֽרָעָה֙ בְּיָמָ֔יו בִּימֵ֣י בְנ֔וֹ אָבִ֥יא הָרָעָ֖ה עַל־בֵּיתֽוֹ׃

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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:801` of Mova's parse database.

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