1 Kings 12:4 · JPS 1917

'Thy father made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.'

Who acts: father, thou, we · What happens: make, put, serve, service · To what, where: yoke, grievous service, heavy yoke, thee, father

This is 1 Kings 12:4 · 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 (father, thou, we), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
2	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 yoke	nmod:poss
6	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 make	advmod
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 make	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 service	det
14	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 service	amod
15	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 service	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yoke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 yoke	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 yoke	nmod:poss
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yoke	amod
23	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 service	conj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 put	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 yoke	acl:relcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lighter	punct
30	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 service	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 serve	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 serve	cc
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 serve	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 serve	aux
35	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 serve	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Thy father	our yoke		grievous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Product
2	make	infinitive	thou	the grievous service of thy father and father's heavy yoke	now	therefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset service=Product
3	put	past	father	father's heavy yoke		upon us	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme upon we=Destination
4	serve	future	we	thee			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute
5	service			thy father			nom service «act 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

אָבִ֖יךָ הִקְשָׁ֣ה אֶת־עֻלֵּ֑נוּ וְאַתָּ֡ה עַתָּ֣ה הָקֵל֩ מֵעֲבֹדַ֨ת אָבִ֜יךָ הַקָּשָׁ֗ה וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹ הַכָּבֵ֛ד אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥ן עָלֵ֖ינוּ וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃

1 Kings 12:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:455 of Mova's parse database.

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