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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Rehoboam	compound
3	Rehoboam	Rehoboam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stood	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	aux
13	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 men	acl:relcl
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 Solomon	case
15	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Solomon	appos
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 lived	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 lived	advmod
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stood	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
26	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	27 counsel	det
27	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
28	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 saying	ccomp
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 give	nsubj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 return	mark
32	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 counsel	acl
33	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 return	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 return	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct

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

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 →

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.457/