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title: 1 Samuel 14:26 (JPS 1917) — And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of hone… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath. Who acts: people, you, man, honey. 1 Samuel 14:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 14:26 · JPS 1917

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And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

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**Who acts:** people, you, man, honey · **What happens:** come, behold, put, fear, flow · **To what, where:** flow, hand, oath

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This is 1 Samuel 14:26 · 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 (people, you, man, honey), 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:354
# text = And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · passive | the people |  |  |  |  | unto the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a flow of honey |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **put** | past | no man | man's hand |  |  |  | to man's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 4 | **fear** | past | the people | the oath |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Stimulus |
| 5 | **flow** |  | honey |  |  |  |  |  | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֤א הָעָם֙ אֶל־הַיַּ֔עַר וְהִנֵּ֖ה הֵ֣לֶךְ דְּבָ֑שׁ וְאֵין־מַשִּׂ֤יג יָדוֹ֙ אֶל־פִּ֔יו כִּֽי־יָרֵ֥א הָעָ֖ם אֶת־הַשְּׁבֻעָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 14:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.26/)

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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:354` 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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