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title: 1 Samuel 10:27 (JPS 1917) — But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present. Who acts: certain base fellows, man, men. 1 Samuel 10:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 10:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present.

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**Who acts:** certain base fellows, man, men · **What happens:** say, save, despise, bring · **To what, where:** us, God, present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 10:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (certain base fellows, man, men), 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:258
# text = But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	base	base	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | certain base fellows |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **save** | shall | this man | us |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **despise** | past | men *= man* | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bring** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | no present | God |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination present=Theme |

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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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וּבְנֵ֧י בְלִיַּ֣עַל אָמְר֗וּ מַה־יֹּשִׁעֵ֙נוּ֙ זֶ֔ה וַיִּבְזֻ֕הוּ וְלֹֽא־הֵבִ֥יאוּ ל֖וֹ מִנְחָ֑ה וַיְהִ֖י כְּמַחֲרִֽישׁ׃פ

[1 Samuel 10:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.27/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present.**
2. [But he was as one that held his peace.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.259/)

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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:258` 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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