--- title: 1 Samuel 2:3 (JPS 1917) — Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of you… · tree and pragmatics description: Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. Who acts: you, arrogancy, LORD, God. 1 Samuel 2:3 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.31/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/2/) / [2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.3/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 2:3 · JPS 1917 Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. **Who acts:** you, arrogancy, LORD, God · **What happens:** not multiply, let, come out, be, weigh · **To what, where:** proud talk, God, actions This is 1 Samuel 2:3 · 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, arrogancy, LORD, God), 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:31 # text = Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. 1 Multiply multiply VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 1 advmod _ _ 3 exceeding exceed ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 arrogancy arrogancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 out out ADV IN _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 28 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 weighed weigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | proud talk | | | | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | arrogancy | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come out** | infinitive | arrogancy *not said here* | | | | | of your mouth; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the LORD | a God | | | | of knowledge | tree rules | | 5 | **weigh** | present · passive | God | actions | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme subject=Value | 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} אַל־תַּרְבּ֤וּ תְדַבְּרוּ֙ גְּבֹהָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה יֵצֵ֥א עָתָ֖ק מִפִּיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י אֵ֤ל דֵּעוֹת֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְל֥וֹ נִתְכְּנ֖וּ עֲלִלֽוֹת׃ [1 Samuel 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:31` 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 2:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.30/) - next →: [1 Samuel 2:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.32/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.3/)