1 Kings 12:8 · JPS 1917

But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

Who acts: father, men, young men · What happens: forsake, give, take, grow up, stand · To what, where: counsel, old men, father, young men

This is 1 Kings 12:8 · 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, men, young men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 forsook	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forsook	nsubj
3	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 counsel	det
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forsook	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counsel	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 men	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forsook	conj
18	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 men	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 grown	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grown	aux:pass
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 men	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 grown	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grown	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 men	acl:relcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forsook	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forsake	past	father	the counsel of the old men				tree rules
2	give	past · perfect	men = man	the old men	father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme
3	take	past	father not said here	counsel			with the young men	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
4	grow up	past · passive		the young men			with father	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with he=Instrument
5	stand	past	the young men			before father		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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

וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב אֶת־עֲצַ֥ת הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְעָצֻ֑הוּ וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֶת־הַיְלָדִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר גָּדְל֣וּ אִתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָעֹמְדִ֖ים לְפָנָֽיו׃

1 Kings 12:8: 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:459 of Mova's parse database.

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