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title: 1 Samuel 6:20 (JPS 1917) — And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the L… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?' Who acts: men, ark. 1 Samuel 6:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 6:20 · JPS 1917

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And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?'

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**Who acts:** men, ark · **What happens:** say, be, stand, go up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 6:20 · 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 (men, ark), 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:154
# text = And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shemesh	shemesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the men of Beth shemesh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before lord=Location |
| 4 | **go up** | shall | ark |  |  |  |  | from us | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to whom=Result from we=Initial\_State |

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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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וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י בֵֽית־שֶׁ֔מֶשׁבֵֽית־שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ מִ֚י יוּכַ֣ל לַעֲמֹ֔ד לִפְנֵ֨י יְהוָ֧ה הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים הַקָּד֖וֹשׁ הַזֶּ֑ה וְאֶל־מִ֖י יַעֲלֶ֥ה מֵעָלֵֽינוּ׃ס

[1 Samuel 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.20/)

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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:154` 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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