--- title: 1 Samuel 1:15 (JPS 1917) — And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrow… · tree and pragmatics description: And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD. Who acts: Hannah, I. 1 Samuel 1:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/1/) / [1:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.15/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 1:15 · JPS 1917 And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD. **Who acts:** Hannah, I · **What happens:** answer, say, be, drink, pour out · **To what, where:** woman, wine, soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 1:15 · 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 (Hannah, I), 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:15 # text = And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Hannah Hannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 8 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 16 discourse _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ _ 25 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc:preconj _ _ 26 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 28 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hannah | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hannah *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | I | a woman | | | | of a sorrowful spirit; my lord *vocative* | tree rules | | 4 | **drink** | present · perfect | I | wine nor strong drink | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | | 5 | **pour out** | past | I | my soul | | | before the LORD | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | 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} וַתַּ֨עַן חַנָּ֤ה וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אֲדֹנִ֔י אִשָּׁ֤ה קְשַׁת־ר֙וּחַ֙ אָנֹ֔כִי וְיַ֥יִן וְשֵׁכָ֖ר לֹ֣א שָׁתִ֑יתִי וָאֶשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ [1 Samuel 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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