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title: 1 Samuel 9:10 (JPS 1917) — Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they went unto the city where the man of God was. Who acts: Saul, us, servants. 1 Samuel 9:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 9:10 · JPS 1917

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Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

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**Who acts:** Saul, us, servants · **What happens:** say, come, let, go · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 9:10 · 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 (Saul, us, servants), 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:207
# text = Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	So	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul |  |  |  | then | to Saul's servant | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to servant=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | unto the city | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֧וּל לְנַעֲר֛וֹ ט֥וֹב דְּבָרְךָ֖ לְכָ֣ה ׀ נֵלֵ֑כָה וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ אֶל־הָעִ֔יר אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם אִ֥ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃

[1 Samuel 9:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.10/)

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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:207` 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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