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title: 1 Samuel 7:10 (JPS 1917) — And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines dr… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel. Who acts: Samuel, Philistines, LORD. 1 Samuel 7:10 in JP
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# 1 Samuel 7:10 · JPS 1917

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And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, Philistines, LORD · **What happens:** offer up, burn, draw, battle, thunder, discomfit · **To what, where:** burnt offering, Philistines

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This is 1 Samuel 7:10 · 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 (Samuel, Philistines, LORD), 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:166
# text = And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	discomfited	discomfit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer up** | past · progressive | Samuel | the burnt offering |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | the Philistines |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **battle** | to-infinitive | the Philistines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Israel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **thunder** | past | the LORD |  |  |  | day | with a great thunder; upon the Philistines | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with thunder=Theme |
| 6 | **discomfit** | past | the LORD *not said here* | Philistines *= philistine* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 7 | **smite down** | past · passive |  | Philistines *= philistine* |  |  | before Israel |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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וַיְהִ֤י שְׁמוּאֵל֙ מַעֲלֶ֣ה הָעוֹלָ֔ה וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֣ים נִגְּשׁ֔וּ לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיַּרְעֵ֣ם יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בְּקוֹל־גָּ֠דוֹל בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֤וּא עַל־פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ וַיְהֻמֵּ֔ם וַיִּנָּגְפ֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

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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:166` of Mova's parse database.

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