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title: 1 Samuel 11:3 (JPS 1917) — And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.' Who acts: elders, we, none, seven days. 1 Samuel 11:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# 1 Samuel 11:3 · JPS 1917

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And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.'

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**Who acts:** elders, we, none, seven days · **What happens:** say, give, send, be, deliver, come out · **To what, where:** respite, us, messengers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 11:3 · 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 (elders, we, none, seven days), 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:262
# text = And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jabesh	Jabesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	respite	respite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	be	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
36	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	35	nsubj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
44	out	out	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the elders of Jabesh |  |  |  |  | unto Jabesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | seven days's respite | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient respite=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | may | we | messengers |  |  |  | unto all borders of Israel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 6 | **come out** | future | we |  |  |  | then | to thee; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **respite** |  | seven days |  |  |  |  |  | nom respite «state transitive»: poss=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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וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ אֵלָ֜יו זִקְנֵ֣י יָבֵ֗ישׁ הֶ֤רֶף לָ֙נוּ֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וְנִשְׁלְחָה֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְאִם־אֵ֥ין מוֹשִׁ֛יעַ אֹתָ֖נוּ וְיָצָ֥אנוּ אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

[1 Samuel 11:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.3/)

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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:262` 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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