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title: 1 Samuel 11:15 (JPS 1917) — And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king bef… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. Who acts: people, Saul. 1 Samuel 11:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 
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# 1 Samuel 11:15 · JPS 1917

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And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

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**Who acts:** people, Saul · **What happens:** go, make, king, sacrifice, rejoice · **To what, where:** Gilgal, sacrifices, peace offerings

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This is 1 Samuel 11:15 · 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 (people, 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:274
# text = And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
36	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
44	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | all people |  |  | Gilgal |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gilgal=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | people |  |  | there | before the LORD in Gilgal |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **king** |  | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sacrifice** | past | people | sacrifices of peace offerings |  | there | before the LORD |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme |
| 5 | **rejoice** | past | Saul and all men of Israel |  |  | there |  | greatly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sacrifice** |  |  | peace offerings |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיֵּלְכ֨וּ כָל־הָעָ֜ם הַגִּלְגָּ֗ל וַיַּמְלִכוּ֩ שָׁ֨ם אֶת־שָׁא֜וּל לִפְנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ בַּגִּלְגָּ֔ל וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־שָׁ֛ם זְבָחִ֥ים שְׁלָמִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּשְׂמַ֨ח שָׁ֥ם שָׁא֛וּל וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַד־מְאֹֽד׃פ

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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:274` of Mova's parse database.

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