--- title: 1 Samuel 8:22 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.' And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city.' 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And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city.' **Who acts:** LORD, Samuel, ye · **What happens:** say, hearken, make, go · **To what, where:** Samuel, words, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 8:22 · 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 (LORD, Samuel, ye), 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:196 # text = And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.' And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 32 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 unto unto ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 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 | the LORD | | Samuel | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to samuel=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | | | | | | unto words's voice | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | | words *= word* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel | | | | | unto the men of Israel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | ye | every man | | | | unto Samuel's city | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֤ה אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵל֙ שְׁמַ֣ע בְּקוֹלָ֔ם וְהִמְלַכְתָּ֥ לָהֶ֖ם מֶ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְכ֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לְעִירֽוֹ׃פ [1 Samuel 8:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:196` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 8:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.195/) - next →: [1 Samuel 9:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.197/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 8:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.22/)