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title: 1 Samuel 8:2 (JPS 1917) — Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. Who acts: name, Joel. 1 Samuel 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 8:2 · JPS 1917

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Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.

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**Who acts:** name, Joel · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Joel, judges, Beer sheba, first born, second

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This is 1 Samuel 8:2 · 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 (name, Joel), 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:176
# text = Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	born	firstborn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Joel	Joel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Abijah	Abijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Beer	Beer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sheba	Beer-sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the name of Samuel's first born | Joel and the name of Samuel's second |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Joel | judges |  | Beer sheba |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Samuel's first born |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Samuel's second |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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וַיְהִ֞י שֶׁם־בְּנ֤וֹ הַבְּכוֹר֙ יוֹאֵ֔ל וְשֵׁ֥ם מִשְׁנֵ֖הוּ אֲבִיָּ֑ה שֹׁפְטִ֖ים בִּבְאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע בְאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע׃

[1 Samuel 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.2/)

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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:176` of Mova's parse database.

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