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title: 1 Samuel 4:13 (JPS 1917) — And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. Who acts: ark, Eli, heart. 1 Samuel 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 4:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God.

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**Who acts:** ark, Eli, heart · **What happens:** come, sit, watch, tremble · **To what, where:** seat

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This is 1 Samuel 4:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (ark, Eli, heart), 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:1SA:109
# text = And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **come** | past | ark |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Eli |  |  | ark's seat |  | by the wayside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon seat=Location |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | Eli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tremble** | past | ark's heart |  |  |  |  | for the ark of God | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיָּב֗וֹא וְהִנֵּ֣ה עֵ֠לִי יֹשֵׁ֨ב עַֽל־הַכִּסֵּ֜א יַ֥ד דֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ מְצַפֶּ֔ה כִּֽי־הָיָ֤ה לִבּוֹ֙ חָרֵ֔ד עַ֖ל אֲר֣וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְהָאִ֗ישׁ בָּ֚א לְהַגִּ֣יד בָּעִ֔יר וַתִּזְעַ֖ק כָּל־הָעִֽיר׃

[1 Samuel 4:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God.**
2. [And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.110/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:109` 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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