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title: 1 Samuel 9:25 (JPS 1917) — And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he spoke with Saul upon the housetop. Who acts: Saul. 1 Samuel 9:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 9:25 · JPS 1917

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And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he spoke with Saul upon the housetop.

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**Who acts:** Saul · **What happens:** come down, speak · **To what, where:** people, high place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 9:25 · 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), 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:226
# text = And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he spoke with Saul upon the housetop.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	housetop	housetop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come down** | past · passive |  | people |  | the high place |  | into the city; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Saul |  |  |  |  | with Saul; upon the housetop | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with saul=Co-Agent |

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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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וַיֵּרְד֥וּ מֵהַבָּמָ֖ה הָעִ֑יר וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר עִם־שָׁא֖וּל עַל־הַגָּֽג׃

[1 Samuel 9:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.25/)

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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:226` 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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