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title: 1 Kings 14:23 (JPS 1917) — For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on e… · tree and pragmatics
description: For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree; Who acts: fathers. 1 Kings 14:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 14:23 · JPS 1917

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For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;

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**Who acts:** fathers · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** high places, tribes, high hill

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This is 1 Kings 14:23 · 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 (fathers), 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:545
# text = For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Asherim	Asherim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | fathers *= father* | high places and pillars and Asherim | tribes *= tribe* | every high hill and every leafy tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary place=Product |

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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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וַיִּבְנ֨וּ גַם־הֵ֧מָּה לָהֶ֛ם בָּמ֥וֹת וּמַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃

[1 Kings 14:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.23/)

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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:545` 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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