--- title: 1 Kings 11:28 (JPS 1917) — And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph. 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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 (man, Solomon), 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:436 # text = And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 valour valour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 industrious industrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the man | a mighty man | | | | of valour | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | Solomon | the young man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | Solomon | | | | | industrious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | past | Solomon | charge | Jeroboam | all labour of the house of Joseph | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient charge=Theme | 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} וְהָאִ֥ישׁ יָרָבְעָ֖ם גִּבּ֣וֹר חָ֑יִל וַיַּ֨רְא שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה אֶת־הַנַּ֗עַר כִּֽי־עֹשֵׂ֤ה מְלָאכָה֙ ה֔וּא וַיַּפְקֵ֣ד אֹת֔וֹ לְכָל־סֵ֖בֶל בֵּ֥ית יוֹסֵֽף׃ס [1 Kings 11:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:436` 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. - ← previous: [1 Kings 11:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.435/) - next →: [1 Kings 11:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.437/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 11:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.28/)