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title: 1 Kings 12:28 (JPS 1917) — Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' Who acts: king, Ye, gods. 1 Kings 12:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# 1 Kings 12:28 · JPS 1917

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Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

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**Who acts:** king, Ye, gods · **What happens:** take, make, say, go up, behold, bring up · **To what, where:** counsel, two calves, Jerusalem, gods, thee, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Kings 12:28 · 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 (king, Ye, gods), 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:480
# text = Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'
1	Whereupon	whereupon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	vocative	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	obj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the king | counsel |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the king *not said here* | two calves of gold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset calf=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  | unto calves *= calf* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go up** | present · perfect | Ye |  | Jerusalem |  |  | long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **behold** | infinitive |  | thy gods |  |  |  | Israel *vocative* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 6 | **bring up** | past | thy gods | thee |  | the land of Egypt |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |

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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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וַיִּוָּעַ֣ץ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיַּ֕עַשׂ שְׁנֵ֖י עֶגְלֵ֣י זָהָ֑ב וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם רַב־לָכֶם֙ מֵעֲל֣וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם הִנֵּ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֱל֖וּךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[1 Kings 12:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.28/)

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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:480` of Mova's parse database.

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