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title: 1 Kings 4:7 (JPS 1917) — And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victua… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. Who acts: Solomon, twelve officers, man. 1 Kings 4:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 4:7 · JPS 1917

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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, twelve officers, man · **What happens:** have, provide, make · **To what, where:** twelve officers, Israel, victuals, provision

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This is 1 Kings 4:7 · 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 (Solomon, twelve officers, man), 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:143
# text = And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past | Solomon | twelve officers |  | all Israel |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Patient |
| 2 | **provide** | past | twelve officers | victuals |  |  |  | for the king and Solomon's household | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition victual=Theme for king=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **have** | past | each man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | each man *not said here* | provision |  |  | month; year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset provision=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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וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֞ה שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֤ר נִצָּבִים֙ עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ אֶת־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְאֶת־בֵּית֑וֹ חֹ֧דֶשׁ בַּשָּׁנָ֛ה יִהְיֶ֥ה עַל־הָאֶחָ֖ד לְכַלְכֵּֽל׃ס

[1 Kings 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.7/)

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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:143` 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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