1 Kings 12:9 · JPS 1917

And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?'

Who acts: father, ye, we, people · What happens: say, give, return, speak, make, put · To what, where: counsel, answer, people, me, yoke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 1 Kings 12:9 · 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, ye, we, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
8	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	9 counsel	det
9	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
11	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 give	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 return	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 return	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	advcl
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoken	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 spoken	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spoken	aux
24	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 people	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 spoken	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 spoken	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Make	punct
30	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saying	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 yoke	det
32	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Make	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 put	obj
34	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 put	aux
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 yoke	acl:relcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 us	case
39	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 put	obl
40	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 put	xcomp
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father			unto men = man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	present	ye	what counsel			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	return	may	we	answer	this people		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to people=Destination
4	speak speech: other	present · perfect	this people		me		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	gerund	this people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	infinitive		the yoke			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yoke=Product
7	put	past · do-support	thy father	the yoke		upon us; light property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme upon we=Destination

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם מָ֚ה אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים וְנָשִׁ֥יב דָּבָ֖ר אֶת־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבְּר֤וּ אֵלַי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הָקֵל֙ מִן־הָעֹ֔ל אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥ן אָבִ֖יךָ עָלֵֽינוּ׃

1 Kings 12:9: 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:460 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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