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title: 1 Kings 15:22 (JPS 1917) — Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. Who acts: king Asa, Ijon, Baasa. 1 Kings 15:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependen
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# 1 Kings 15:22 · JPS 1917

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Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

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**Who acts:** king Asa, Ijon, Baasa · **What happens:** make, exempt, carry away, build · **To what, where:** proclamation, none, stones, Geba

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This is 1 Kings 15:22 · 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 Asa, Ijon, Baasa), 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:577
# text = Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	Polarity=Neg|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	exempted	exempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ramah	Ramah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	Baasa	Baasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	Geba	Geba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **make** | past | king Asa | a proclamation |  |  | then | unto all Judah | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product |
| 2 | **exempt** | past · passive |  | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | Ijon | the stones of Ramah and the timber |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | past · perfect | Baasa |  |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **build** | past | king Asa | Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geba=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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וְהַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָסָ֜א הִשְׁמִ֤יעַ אֶת־כָּל־יְהוּדָה֙ אֵ֣ין נָקִ֔י וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ אֶת־אַבְנֵ֤י הָֽרָמָה֙ וְאֶת־עֵצֶ֔יהָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָ֖ה בַּעְשָׁ֑א וַיִּ֤בֶן בָּם֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָסָ֔א אֶת־גֶּ֥בַע בִּנְיָמִ֖ן וְאֶת־הַמִּצְפָּֽה׃

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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:577` of Mova's parse database.

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