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title: 1 Samuel 14:45 (JPS 1917) — And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Who acts: people, Jonathan. 1 Samuel 14:45 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 14:45 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?

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**Who acts:** people, Jonathan · **What happens:** say, die, wrought · **To what, where:** great salvation, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 14:45 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, Jonathan), 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:373
# text = And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed indirect=0, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | unto Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | shall | Jonathan |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **wrought** | present · perfect | Jonathan | this great salvation |  | Israel |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הָעָ֜ם אֶל־שָׁא֗וּל הֲ‍ֽיוֹנָתָ֤ן ׀ יָמוּת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָ֠שָׂה הַיְשׁוּעָ֨ה הַגְּדוֹלָ֣ה הַזֹּאת֮ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל֒ חָלִ֗ילָה חַי־יְהוָה֙ אִם־יִפֹּ֞ל מִשַּׂעֲרַ֤ת רֹאשׁוֹ֙ אַ֔רְצָה כִּֽי־עִם־אֱלֹהִ֥ים עָשָׂ֖ה הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיִּפְדּ֥וּ הָעָ֛ם אֶת־יוֹנָתָ֖ן וְלֹא־מֵֽת׃ס

[1 Samuel 14:45: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.45/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?**
2. [Far from it; as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.' So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.374/)

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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:373` 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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