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title: 1 Kings 12:13 — And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; Who acts: king, people. 1 Kings 12:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 12:13 מְלָכִים א

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**Who acts:** king, people · **What happens:** answer, forsake, give · **To what, where:** people, counsel, old men, king

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This is 1 Kings 12:13 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — king, people — and what happens in the verse to people, counsel, old men, king, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 22 chapters of 1 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיַּ֧עַן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם קָשָׁ֑ה וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב אֶת־עֲצַ֥ת הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְעָצֻֽהוּ׃

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[And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.464/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:1KI:446
# text = וַיַּ֧עַן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם קָשָׁ֑ה וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב אֶת־עֲצַ֥ת הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְעָצֻֽהוּ׃
# verse = 1KI.12.13
1-2	וַיַּ֧עַן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:13!1|MId=o110120130011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּ֧עַן	עָנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.answered|Ref=1KI_12:13!1|MId=o110120130012|Strong=6030|Frame=A0:110120130022;A1:110120130042;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_12:13!2|MId=o110120130021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	מֶּ֛לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=king|Ref=1KI_12:13!2|MId=o110120130022|Strong=4428
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_12:13!3|MId=o110120130031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	הָעָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_12:13!4|MId=o110120130041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=people|Ref=1KI_12:13!4|MId=o110120130042|Strong=5971
8	קָשָׁ֑ה	קָשֶׁה	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	advmod	_	Gloss=hard|Ref=1KI_12:13!5|MId=o110120130051|Strong=7186|Type=adjective
9-10	וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:13!6|MId=o110120130061|Strong=2050b
10	יַּעֲזֹ֛ב	עָזַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.abandoned|Ref=1KI_12:13!6|MId=o110120130062|Strong=5800|Frame=A0:110120130022;A1:110120130081;|Type=wayyiqtol
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_12:13!7|MId=o110120130071|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
12	עֲצַ֥ת	עֵצָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Gloss=the.counsel|Ref=1KI_12:13!8|MId=o110120130081|Strong=6098
13-14	הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=1KI_12:13!9|MId=o110120130091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	זְּקֵנִ֖ים	זָקֵן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.elders|Ref=1KI_12:13!9|MId=o110120130092|Strong=2205|Type=adjective
15	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	16	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=1KI_12:13!10|MId=o110120130101|Strong=0834|Type=relative
16-17	יְעָצֻֽהוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	יְעָצֻֽ	יָעַץ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	12	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=they|Ref=1KI_12:13!11|MId=o110120130111|Strong=3289|Frame=A0:110120130092;A2:110120130112;A1:110120130081;|Type=qatal
17	הוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	Gloss=had.counseled.him|Ref=1KI_12:13!11|MId=o110120130112|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=1KI_12:13!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּעַן *he answered* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | עָם *people* |  |  |
| יַּעֲזֹב *he abandoned* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | עֲצַת *the counsel* |  |  |
| יְעָצֻֽ *they* | qatal · qal | זְּקֵנִים *the elders* | עֲצַת *the counsel* | הוּ *had counseled him* |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וְאָתִיב מַלְכָּא יַת עַמָא פִּתְגַם קָשֵׁי וּשְׁבַק יַת מִלְכָּא דְסָבַיָא דִי מְלַכוּהִי:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.464/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:1KI:446`.

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