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title: 1 Samuel 9:20 (JPS 1917) — And on whom is all the desire of Israel? · tree and pragmatics
description: And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Who acts: desire. 1 Samuel 9:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 9:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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And on whom is all the desire of Israel?

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** be, desire · **To what, where:** Israel

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This is 1 Samuel 9:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (desire), 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:219
# text = And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all desire of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** |  |  | Israel |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְלָאֲתֹנ֞וֹת הָאֹבְד֣וֹת לְךָ֗ הַיּוֹם֙ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת הַיָּמִ֔ים אַל־תָּ֧שֶׂם אֶֽת־לִבְּךָ֛ לָהֶ֖ם כִּ֣י נִמְצָ֑אוּ וּלְמִי֙ כָּל־חֶמְדַּ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הֲל֣וֹא לְךָ֔ וּלְכֹ֖ל בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽיךָ׃ס

[1 Samuel 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.218/)
2. **And on whom is all the desire of Israel?**
3. [Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.220/)

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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:219` 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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