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title: 1 Samuel 10:14 (JPS 1917) — And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?' And he said: 'To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.' Who acts: uncle, ye, Saul, we. 1 Samuel 10:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 10:14 · JPS 1917

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And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?' And he said: 'To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.'

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**Who acts:** uncle, ye, Saul, we · **What happens:** say, go, seek, see, not find, come · **To what, where:** asses, Samuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 10:14 · 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 (uncle, ye, Saul, we), 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:243
# text = And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?' And he said: 'To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	To	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul's uncle |  |  |  |  | unto Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | ye |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Saul *not said here* | the asses |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **find** | past · passive |  | asses *= ass* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **come** | past | we |  |  | Samuel |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to samuel=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ דּ֨וֹד שָׁא֥וּל אֵלָ֛יו וְאֶֽל־נַעֲר֖וֹ אָ֣ן הֲלַכְתֶּ֑ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְבַקֵּשׁ֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲתֹנ֔וֹת וַנִּרְאֶ֣ה כִי־אַ֔יִן וַנָּב֖וֹא אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃

[1 Samuel 10:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.14/)

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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:243` of Mova's parse database.

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