--- title: 1 Samuel 14:37 (JPS 1917) — And Saul asked counsel of God: 'Shall I go down after the Philistine… · tree and pragmatics description: And Saul asked counsel of God: 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He answered him not that day. 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But He answered him not that day. **Who acts:** Saul, I, Thou · **What happens:** ask, go down, deliver, not answer · **To what, where:** counsel, Philistines, hand, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 14:37 · 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 (Saul, I, Thou), 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:365 # text = And Saul asked counsel of God: 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He answered him not that day. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Philistines Philistines PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 17 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 19 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 28 But but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Saul | counsel of God | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent counsel=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go down** | shall | I | | | | after the Philistines | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **deliver** | future | Thou | Philistines | | the hand of Israel | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Saul | | God | | day | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | 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} וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל שָׁאוּל֙ בֵּֽאלֹהִ֔ים הַֽאֵרֵד֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים הֲתִתְּנֵ֖ם בְּיַ֣ד יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֥א עָנָ֖הוּ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃ [1 Samuel 14:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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