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title: 1 Kings 12:1 (JPS 1917) — And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. Who acts: Rehoboam, Israel. 1 Kings 12:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 12:1 · JPS 1917

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And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

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**Who acts:** Rehoboam, Israel · **What happens:** go, come, make · **To what, where:** Shechem, Israel

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This is 1 Kings 12:1 · 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, Israel), 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:452
# text = And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Rehoboam	Rehoboam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | past | Rehoboam |  |  | Shechem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shechem=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past · passive | all Israel |  |  | Shechem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shechem=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | all Israel *not said here* | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֖ם שְׁכֶ֑ם כִּ֥י שְׁכֶ֛ם בָּ֥א כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֹתֽוֹ׃

[1 Kings 12:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.1/)

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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:452` 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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