--- title: 1 Samuel 1:18 (JPS 1917) — And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the wom… · tree and pragmatics description: And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. 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So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. **Who acts:** Israel, servant, woman, countenance, thy · **What happens:** say, let, find, go, eat, be · **To what, where:** favour, sight, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 1:18 · 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 (Israel, servant, woman, countenance), 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:18 # text = And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 16 So so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 no no ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | thy servant | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | thy servant *not said here* | favour | | thy sight | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 4 | **go** | past | the woman | Israel's way | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | past · do-support | the woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | Israel's countenance | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַתֹּ֕אמֶר תִּמְצָ֧א שִׁפְחָתְךָ֛ חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ וַתֵּ֨לֶךְ הָאִשָּׁ֤ה לְדַרְכָּהּ֙ וַתֹּאכַ֔ל וּפָנֶ֥יהָ לֹא־הָיוּ־לָ֖הּ עֽוֹד׃ [1 Samuel 1:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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