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title: 1 Kings 12:9 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return ans… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 1 Kings 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 12:9 · JPS 1917

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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?'

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**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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1KI:460
# text = 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?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	xcomp	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.9/)

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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:460` of Mova's parse database.

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