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title: 1 Samuel 7:6 (JPS 1917) — And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah. Who acts: children, We, Samuel. 1 Samuel 7:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree an
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# 1 Samuel 7:6 · JPS 1917

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And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

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**Who acts:** children, We, Samuel · **What happens:** gather, draw, pour out, fast, say, sin · **To what, where:** Mizpah, water, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 7:6 · 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 (children, We, Samuel), 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:161
# text = And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
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	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fasted	fast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
31	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | children *= child* |  | Mizpah |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **pour out** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | water |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **fast** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sin** | present · perfect | We |  |  |  |  | against the LORD | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against lord=Maleficiary |
| 7 | **judge** | past | Samuel | the children of Israel |  | Mizpah |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent child=Value |

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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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וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ הַ֠מִּצְפָּתָה וַיִּֽשְׁאֲבוּ־מַ֜יִם וַֽיִּשְׁפְּכ֣וּ ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה וַיָּצ֙וּמוּ֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ שָׁ֔ם חָטָ֖אנוּ לַיהוָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּצְפָּֽה׃

[1 Samuel 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.7.6/)

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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:161` of Mova's parse database.

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