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title: 1 Samuel 2:9 (JPS 1917) — He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put… · tree and pragmatics
description: He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail. Who acts: LORD, man. 1 Samuel 2:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 2:9 · JPS 1917

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He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.

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**Who acts:** LORD, man · **What happens:** keep, put, prevail · **To what, where:** feet, wicked, darkness

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This is 1 Samuel 2:9 · 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 (LORD, man), 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:37
# text = He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | future | LORD | the feet of LORD's holy ones |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the wicked |  | darkness |  | to silence | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in darkness=Destination |
| 3 | **prevail** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | by strength | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by strength=Location |

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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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רַגְלֵ֤י חֲסִידָיו֙ יִשְׁמֹ֔ר וּרְשָׁעִ֖ים בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ יִדָּ֑מּוּ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְכֹ֖חַ יִגְבַּר־אִֽישׁ׃

[1 Samuel 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.9/)

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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:37` 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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