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title: 1 Samuel 8:12 (JPS 1917) — And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and cap… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots. Who acts: king. 1 Samuel 8:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# 1 Samuel 8:12 · JPS 1917

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And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** appoint, plow, reap, make · **To what, where:** sons, ground, harvest, instruments

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This is 1 Samuel 8:12 · 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 (king), 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:186
# text = And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	_	4	aux	_	_
4	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fifties	fifty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	plow	plow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | future | king | sons *= son* |  |  |  | unto Samuel; for captains of thousands and captains of fifties | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **plow** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king's ground |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ground=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **reap** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king's harvest |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king's instruments of war and the instruments of king's chariots |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instrument=Product |

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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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וְלָשׂ֣וּם ל֔וֹ שָׂרֵ֥י אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֣י חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים וְלַחֲרֹ֤שׁ חֲרִישׁוֹ֙ וְלִקְצֹ֣ר קְצִיר֔וֹ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת כְּלֵֽי־מִלְחַמְתּ֖וֹ וּכְלֵ֥י רִכְבּֽוֹ׃

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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:186` 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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