--- title: 1 Samuel 10:11 (JPS 1917) — Is Saul also among the prophets?' · tree and pragmatics description: Is Saul also among the prophets?' Who acts: Saul. 1 Samuel 10:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.240/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/10/) / [10:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.11/) / JPS 2 # 1 Samuel 10:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Is Saul also among the prophets?' **Who acts:** Saul · **What happens:** be This is 1 Samuel 10:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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:240 # text = Is Saul also among the prophets?' 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 2 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 among among ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Saul | | | | | among the prophets | tree rules | 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} וַיְהִ֗י כָּל־יֽוֹדְעוֹ֙ מֵאִתְּמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשׁ֔וֹם וַיִּרְא֕וּ וְהִנֵּ֥ה עִם־נְבִאִ֖ים נִבָּ֑א וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הָעָ֜ם אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֗הוּ מַה־זֶּה֙ הָיָ֣ה לְבֶן־קִ֔ישׁ הֲגַ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל בַּנְּבִיאִֽים׃ [1 Samuel 10:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another: 'What is this that is come unto the son of Kish?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.239/) 2. **Is Saul also among the prophets?'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:240` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 10:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.239/) - next →: [1 Samuel 10:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.241/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 10:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.11/)