--- title: 1 Samuel 12:14 (JPS 1917) — If ye will fear the LORD, and serve Him, and hearken unto His voice,… · tree and pragmatics description: If ye will fear the LORD, and serve Him, and hearken unto His voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of the LORD your God — ; Who acts: ye, king. 1 Samuel 12:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.288/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/12/) / [12:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.14/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 12:14 · JPS 1917 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve Him, and hearken unto His voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of the LORD your God — ; **Who acts:** ye, king · **What happens:** fear, serve, hearken, not rebel, reign, be · **To what, where:** LORD, followers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 12:14 · 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 (ye, king), 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:288 # text = If ye will fear the LORD, and serve Him, and hearken unto His voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of the LORD your God — ; 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 10 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 rebel rebel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 29 both both CCONJ CC _ 30 cc:preconj _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 also also ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 reigneth reign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 40 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 46 — - PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye | the LORD | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | | 2 | **serve** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | | 3 | **hearken** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | unto LORD's voice | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **rebel** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | against the commandment of the LORD | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against commandment=Maleficiary | | 5 | **reign** | present | the king | | | | | over you | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | infinitive | ye | followers | | | | of the LORD | tree rules | | 7 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} אִם־תִּֽירְא֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֗ה וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֤ם אֹתוֹ֙ וּשְׁמַעְתֶּ֣ם בְּקֹל֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א תַמְר֖וּ אֶת־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וִהְיִתֶ֣ם גַּם־אַתֶּ֗ם וְגַם־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָלַ֣ךְ עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם אַחַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ [1 Samuel 12:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:288` 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 12:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.287/) - next →: [1 Samuel 12:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.289/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 12:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.14/)