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title: 1 Kings 22:20 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead. Who acts: LORD. 1 Kings 22:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 22:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, entice, go up, fall · **To what, where:** Ahab, Ramoth gilead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 22:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:822
# text = And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	entice	entice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Ramoth	Ramoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	gilead	gilead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **entice** | shall |  | Ahab |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ahab=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go up** | may | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* |  |  | Ramoth gilead |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gilead=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה מִ֤י יְפַתֶּה֙ אֶת־אַחְאָ֔ב וְיַ֕עַל וְיִפֹּ֖ל בְּרָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד רָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֤אמֶר זֶה֙ בְּכֹ֔ה וְזֶ֥ה אֹמֵ֖ר בְּכֹֽה׃

[1 Kings 22:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead.**
2. [And one said: On this manner; and another said: On that manner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.823/)

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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:822` 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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