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title: 2 Chronicles 11:21 (JPS 1917) — And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wive… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines — for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begot twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters. Who acts: Rehoboam. 2 Chronicles 11:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# 2 Chronicles 11:21 · JPS 1917

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And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines — for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begot twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.

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**Who acts:** Rehoboam · **What happens:** love, take, beget · **To what, where:** Maacah, eighteen wives, twenty sons

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This is 2 Chronicles 11:21 · 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 (Rehoboam), 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:2CH:253
# text = And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines — for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begot twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Rehoboam	Rehoboam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Maacah	Maacah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	concubines	concubine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	concubines	concubine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Rehoboam | Maacah |  |  |  | above Rehoboam's wives and Rehoboam's concubines | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maacah=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | Rehoboam |  | eighteen wives and threescore concubines |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
| 3 | **beget** | past | Rehoboam *not said here* | twenty sons and threescore daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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וַיֶּאֱהַ֨ב רְחַבְעָ֜ם אֶת־מַעֲכָ֣ה בַת־אַבְשָׁל֗וֹם מִכָּל־נָשָׁיו֙ וּפִ֣ילַגְשָׁ֔יו כִּ֠י נָשִׁ֤ים שְׁמוֹנֶֽה־עֶשְׂרֵה֙ נָשָׂ֔א וּפִֽילַגְשִׁ֖ים שִׁשִּׁ֑ים וַיּ֗וֹלֶד עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וּשְׁמוֹנָ֛ה בָּנִ֖ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים בָּנֽוֹת׃

[2 Chronicles 11:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.21/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:253` 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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