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title: 1 Samuel 12:13 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for; and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. Who acts: you, ye, LORD. 1 Samuel 12:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 12:13 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for; and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, LORD · **What happens:** behold, choose, ask, set · **To what, where:** king

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This is 1 Samuel 12:13 · 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 (you, ye, LORD), 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:287
# text = Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for; and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the king |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect | ye | the king |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | present · perfect | the LORD | a king |  |  |  | over you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme over you=Destination |

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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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וְעַתָּ֗ה הִנֵּ֥ה הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר שְׁאֶלְתֶּ֑ם וְהִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם מֶֽלֶךְ׃

[1 Samuel 12:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.13/)

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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:287` 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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