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title: 1 Samuel 5:10 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekron… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.' Who acts: ark, Ekronites. 1 Samuel 5:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 5:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.'

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**Who acts:** ark, Ekronites · **What happens:** come, pass, cry out, say, bring, slay · **To what, where:** Ekron, ark, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 5:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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, Ekronites), 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:132
# text = And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ekron	Ekron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Ekronites	ekronite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
41	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | ark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the ark of God |  |  | Ekron |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ekron=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the Ekronites |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Ekronites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring** | present · perfect | Ekronites *= ekronite* | the ark of the God of Israel | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ark=Theme to we=Destination |
| 7 | **slay** | to-infinitive | Ekronites *= ekronite* *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |

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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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וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֛וּ אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים עֶקְר֑וֹן וַיְהִ֗י כְּב֨וֹא אֲר֤וֹן הָאֱלֹהִים֙ עֶקְר֔וֹן וַיִּזְעֲק֨וּ הָֽעֶקְרֹנִ֜ים לֵאמֹ֗ר הֵסַ֤בּוּ אֵלַי֙ אֶת־אֲרוֹן֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַהֲמִיתֵ֖נִי וְאֶת־עַמִּֽי׃

[1 Samuel 5:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.131/)
2. **And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.'**

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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:132` 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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