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title: 1 Samuel 12:15 — but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD, but rebel aga… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, and against your fathers. Who acts: ye, hand. 1 Samuel 12:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every
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# 1 Samuel 12:15 שְׁמוּאֵל א

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**Who acts:** ye, hand · **What happens:** not hearken, rebel, be, command · **To what, where:** LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is 1 Samuel 12:15 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — ye, hand — and what happens in the verse to LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 31 chapters of 1 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְאִם־לֹ֤א תִשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֔ה וּמְרִיתֶ֖ם אֶת־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְהָיְתָ֧ה יַד־יְהוָ֛ה בָּכֶ֖ם וּבַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

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[but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, and against your fathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.289/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:1SA:262
# text = וְאִם־לֹ֤א תִשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֔ה וּמְרִיתֶ֖ם אֶת־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְהָיְתָ֧ה יַד־יְהוָ֛ה בָּכֶ֖ם וּבַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃
# verse = 1SA.12.15
1-2	וְאִם־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_12:15!1|MId=o090120150011|Strong=2050b
2	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=1SA_12:15!1|MId=o090120150012|Strong=0518
3	לֹ֤א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	4	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=1SA_12:15!2|MId=o090120150021|Strong=3808|Type=negative
4	תִשְׁמְעוּ֙	שָׁמַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2	18	advcl	_	Gloss=you.will.listen|Ref=1SA_12:15!3|MId=o090120150031|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:090120060042;|Type=yiqtol
5-6	בְּק֣וֹל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=1SA_12:15!4|MId=o090120150041|Strong=0871a
6	ק֣וֹל	קוֹל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Gloss=the.voice|Ref=1SA_12:15!4|MId=o090120150042|Strong=6963
7	יְהוָ֔ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	6	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1SA_12:15!5|MId=o090120150051|Strong=3068
8-9	וּמְרִיתֶ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_12:15!6|MId=o090120150061|Strong=2050b
9	מְרִיתֶ֖ם	מָרָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2	4	conj	_	Gloss=you.will.rebel.against|Ref=1SA_12:15!6|MId=o090120150062|Strong=4784|Frame=A0:090120060042;A1:090120150081;|Type=weqatal
10	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1SA_12:15!7|MId=o090120150071|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
11	פִּ֣י	פֶּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=1SA_12:15!8|MId=o090120150081|Strong=6310
12	יְהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1SA_12:15!9|MId=o090120150091|Strong=3068
13-14	וְהָיְתָ֧ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_12:15!10|MId=o090120150101|Strong=2050b
14	הָיְתָ֧ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	18	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=1SA_12:15!10|MId=o090120150102|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:090120150111;|Type=weqatal
15	יַד־	יָד	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.hand|Ref=1SA_12:15!11|MId=o090120150111|Strong=3027|SpaceAfter=No
16	יְהוָ֛ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1SA_12:15!12|MId=o090120150121|Strong=3068
17-18	בָּכֶ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=1SA_12:15!13|MId=o090120150131|Strong=0871a
18	ָכֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	Gloss=you|Ref=1SA_12:15!13|MId=o090120150132|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
19-22	וּבַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	21	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_12:15!14|MId=o090120150141|Strong=2050b
20	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=1SA_12:15!14|MId=o090120150142|Strong=0871a
21	אֲבֹתֵי	אָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Gloss=ancestors|Ref=1SA_12:15!14|MId=o090120150143|Strong=0001
22	כֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=1SA_12:15!14|MId=o090120150144|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=1SA_12:15!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **not** תִשְׁמְעוּ *you will listen* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| מְרִיתֶם *you will rebel against* | weqatal · qal |  | פִּי *the mouth* |  |  |
| הָיְתָה *it will be* | weqatal · qal | יַד־ *the hand* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וְאִם לָא תְקַבְּלוּן לְמֵימְרָא דַייָ וּתְסָרְבוּן עַל מֵימְרָא דַייָ וּתְהֵי מְחָתָא דַייָ בְּכוֹן כְּמָא דַהֲוַת בַּאֲבָהַתְכוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, and against your fathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.289/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:1SA:262`.

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