--- title: 1 Kings 12:15 (JPS 1917) — So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brough… · tree and pragmatics description: So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 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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 (king, counsel, LORD), 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:466 # text = So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 15 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 about about ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 establish establish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Ahijah Ahijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Shilonite Shilonite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Nebat Nebat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hearken** | past | the king | | | | | unto the people | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | counsel | a thing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring about** | participle | | a thing *not said here* | | | | of the LORD | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **establish** | might | king | king's word | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | king's word | Jeroboam | | | by the hand of Ahijah | tree rules | | 6 | **word** | | king | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְלֹֽא־שָׁמַ֥ע הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם כִּֽי־הָיְתָ֤ה סִבָּה֙ מֵעִ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה לְמַ֜עַן הָקִ֣ים אֶת־דְּבָר֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ בְּיַד֙ אֲחִיָּ֣ה הַשִּׁילֹנִ֔י אֶל־יָרָבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־נְבָֽט׃ [1 Kings 12:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:466` 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 12:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.465/) - next →: [1 Kings 12:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.467/) - ↑ back to [1 Kings 12:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.15/)