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title: 1 Samuel 9:11 (JPS 1917) — As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens goi… · tree and pragmatics
description: As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?' Who acts: servants, young maidens. 1 Samuel 9:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 9:11 · JPS 1917

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As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'

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**Who acts:** servants, young maidens · **What happens:** go up, find, go out, draw, say, be · **To what, where:** ascent, young maidens, water, seer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 9:11 · 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 (servants, young maidens), 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:208
# text = As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | servants *= servant* | the ascent to the city |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past | servants *= servant* | young maidens |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | gerund | young maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | to-infinitive | young maidens *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto servants *= servant* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the seer |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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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הֵ֗מָּה עֹלִים֙ בְּמַעֲלֵ֣ה הָעִ֔יר וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ מָצְא֣וּ נְעָר֔וֹת יֹצְא֖וֹת לִשְׁאֹ֣ב מָ֑יִם וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לָהֶ֔ן הֲיֵ֥שׁ בָּזֶ֖ה הָרֹאֶֽה׃

[1 Samuel 9:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.11/)

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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:208` 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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