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title: 1 Samuel 9:3 (JPS 1917) — And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with th… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Samuel 9:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.'

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**Who acts:** Kish · **What happens:** say, take, arise, go, seek · **To what, where:** Saul, one, asses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 9:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Kish), 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:200
# text = And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Kish	Kish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kish |  | Saul |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to saul=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | one of the servants |  |  | now | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **arise** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive |  | the asses |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme |

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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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וַתֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙ הָאֲתֹנ֔וֹת לְקִ֖ישׁ אֲבִ֣י שָׁא֑וּל וַיֹּ֨אמֶר קִ֜ישׁ אֶל־שָׁא֣וּל בְּנ֗וֹ קַח־נָ֤א אִתְּךָ֙ אֶת־אַחַ֣ד מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֔ים וְק֣וּם לֵ֔ךְ בַּקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־הָאֲתֹנֹֽת׃

[1 Samuel 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Now the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.199/)
2. **And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.'**

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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:200` 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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