--- title: 1 Samuel 1:27 (JPS 1917) — For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition wh… · tree and pragmatics description: For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition which I asked of Him; Who acts: I, LORD, my. 1 Samuel 1:27 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.27/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/1/) / [1:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.27/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 1:27 · JPS 1917 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition which I asked of Him; **Who acts:** I, LORD, my · **What happens:** pray, grant, ask, petition · **To what, where:** petition, me This is 1 Samuel 1:27 · 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 (I, LORD, my), 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:27 # text = For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition which I asked of Him; 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 granted grant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** | past | I | | | | | for this child | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for child=Theme | | 2 | **grant** | present · perfect | the LORD | my petition | me | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal petition=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I | my petition | | | | of LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 4 | **petition** | | my | | | | | | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֶל־הַנַּ֥עַר הַזֶּ֖ה הִתְפַּלָּ֑לְתִּי וַיִּתֵּ֨ן יְהוָ֥ה לִי֙ אֶת־שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁאַ֖לְתִּי מֵעִמּֽוֹ׃ [1 Samuel 1:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:27` 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 1:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.26/) - next →: [1 Samuel 1:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.28/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 1:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.27/)