--- title: 1 Samuel 1:20 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conce… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she called his name Samuel: 'because I have asked him of the LORD.' Who acts: countenance, time, Hannah, woman. 1 Samuel 1:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/1/) / [1:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.20/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 1:20 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she called his name Samuel: 'because I have asked him of the LORD.' **Who acts:** countenance, time, Hannah, woman, I, LORD · **What happens:** come, pass, come about, conceive, bear, call · **To what, where:** son, name, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 1:20 · 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 (countenance, time, Hannah, woman), 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:20 # text = And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she called his name Samuel: 'because I have asked him of the LORD.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 about about ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 Hannah Hannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 conceived conceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | countenance | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | countenance *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come about** | past · passive | the time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **conceive** | past | Hannah | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bear** | past | Hannah *not said here* | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 6 | **call** | past | woman | LORD's name | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | I | | LORD | | | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 8 | **name** | | LORD | | | | | | nom name «communication 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} וַיְהִי֙ לִתְקֻפ֣וֹת הַיָּמִ֔ים וַתַּ֥הַר חַנָּ֖ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַתִּקְרָ֤א אֶת־שְׁמוֹ֙ שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כִּ֥י מֵיְהוָ֖ה שְׁאִלְתִּֽיו׃ [1 Samuel 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:20` 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 1:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.19/) - next →: [1 Samuel 1:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.21/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 1:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.20/)