--- title: 1 Kings 12:6 (JPS 1917) — And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood befo… · tree and pragmatics description: And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying: 'What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?' Who acts: king Rehoboam, old men, father, ye. 1 Kings 12:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.457/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/12/) / [12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.6/) / JPS 1 # 1 Kings 12:6 · JPS 1917 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying: 'What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?' **Who acts:** king Rehoboam, old men, father, ye · **What happens:** take, stand, live, say, give, return · **To what, where:** counsel, Solomon, me, answer, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Kings 12:6 · 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 Rehoboam, old men, father, ye), 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:457 # text = And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying: 'What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Rehoboam Rehoboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 yet yet ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 27 det _ _ 27 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 28 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 29 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 33 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | king Rehoboam | counsel | | | | with the old men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past · perfect | the old men | | | Solomon | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before solomon=Location | | 3 | **live** | past | father | | | | yet | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the old men *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | present | ye | what counsel | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient counsel=Theme | | 6 | **return** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | answer | this people | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to people=Destination | 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} וַיִּוָּעַ֞ץ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֗ם אֶת־הַזְּקֵנִים֙ אֲשֶׁר־הָי֣וּ עֹמְדִ֗ים אֶת־פְּנֵי֙ שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה אָבִ֔יו בִּֽהְיֹת֥וֹ חַ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר אֵ֚יךְ אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־הָֽעָם־הַזֶּ֖ה דָּבָֽר׃ [1 Kings 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:457` 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 12:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.456/) - next →: [1 Kings 12:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.458/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.6/)