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title: 1 Samuel 12:21 (JPS 1917) — and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which… · tree and pragmatics
description: and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain. Who acts: you, ye, vain things, people. 1 Samuel 12:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 12:21 · JPS 1917

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and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, vain things, people · **What happens:** not turn, go, not profit, deliver, be · **To what, where:** ye

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This is 1 Samuel 12:21 · 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, vain things, people), 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:296
# text = and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | should | ye |  |  |  | after vain things; then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **profit** | can | vain things |  |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **deliver** | infinitive | vain things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְלֹ֖א תָּס֑וּרוּ כִּ֣י ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַתֹּ֗הוּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יוֹעִ֛ילוּ וְלֹ֥א יַצִּ֖ילוּ כִּי־תֹ֥הוּ הֵֽמָּה׃

[1 Samuel 12:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.21/)

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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:296` 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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