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title: 1 Samuel 9:20 (JPS 1917) — Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?' · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?' 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 3 of 3

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Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?'

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** thee

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This is 1 Samuel 9:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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:220
# text = Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?'
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | desire |  |  | thee |  |  | 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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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.219/)
3. **Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?'**

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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:220` 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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