--- title: 1 Samuel 12:17 (JPS 1917) — Is it not wheat harvest to-day? · tree and pragmatics description: Is it not wheat harvest to-day? Who acts: thing. 1 Samuel 12:17 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.291/) [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/) / [12:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.17/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 12:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Is it not wheat harvest to-day? **Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** wheat harvest This is 1 Samuel 12:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thing), 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:291 # text = Is it not wheat harvest to-day? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | thing | wheat harvest | | | day | | tree rules | 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} הֲל֤וֹא קְצִיר־חִטִּים֙ הַיּ֔וֹם אֶקְרָא֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וְיִתֵּ֥ן קֹל֖וֹת וּמָטָ֑ר וּדְע֣וּ וּרְא֗וּ כִּֽי־רָעַתְכֶ֤ם רַבָּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר עֲשִׂיתֶם֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה לִשְׁא֥וֹל לָכֶ֖ם מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס [1 Samuel 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Is it not wheat harvest to-day?** 2. [I will call unto the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain; and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.292/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:291` 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 12:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.290/) - next →: [1 Samuel 12:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.292/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 12:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.17/)