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title: 1 Samuel 2:5 (JPS 1917) — They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they th… · tree and pragmatics
description: They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry have ceased; while the barren hath borne seven, she that had many children hath languished. Who acts: bows, barren, arrogancy. 1 Samuel 2:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 2:5 · JPS 1917

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They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry have ceased; while the barren hath borne seven, she that had many children hath languished.

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**Who acts:** bows, barren, arrogancy · **What happens:** be, hire out, cease, bear, have, languish · **To what, where:** bows, seven, many children

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This is 1 Samuel 2:5 · 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 (bows, barren, arrogancy), 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:33
# text = They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry have ceased; while the barren hath borne seven, she that had many children hath languished.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
25	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	languished	languish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hire out** | present · perfect | bows *= bow* | bows *= bow* |  |  |  | for bread | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for bread=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cease** | present · perfect | bows *= bow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bear** | present · perfect | the barren | seven |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past |  | many children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 7 | **languish** | present · perfect | arrogancy |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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שְׂבֵעִ֤ים בַּלֶּ֙חֶם֙ נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּ וּרְעֵבִ֖ים חָדֵ֑לּוּ עַד־עֲקָרָה֙ יָלְדָ֣ה שִׁבְעָ֔ה וְרַבַּ֥ת בָּנִ֖ים אֻמְלָֽלָה׃

[1 Samuel 2:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.5/)

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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:33` of Mova's parse database.

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