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title: 1 Samuel 15:3 (JPS 1917) — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.' Who acts: you, hosts. 1 Samuel 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:3 · JPS 1917

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Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'

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**Who acts:** you, hosts · **What happens:** go, smite, destroy, have, not spare, slay · **To what, where:** Amalek, all, hosts, man

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This is 1 Samuel 15:3 · 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 (you, hosts), 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:384
# text = Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	Amalek	Amalek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	suckling	suckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smite** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Amalek |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus amalek=Experiencer |
| 3 | **destroy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **spare** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset |
| 6 | **slay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | man and woman and infant and suckling and ox and sheep and camel and ass |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |

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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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עַתָּה֩ לֵ֨ךְ וְהִכִּֽיתָ֜ה אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֗ק וְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א תַחְמֹ֖ל עָלָ֑יו וְהֵמַתָּ֞ה מֵאִ֣ישׁ עַד־אִשָּׁ֗ה מֵֽעֹלֵל֙ וְעַד־יוֹנֵ֔ק מִשּׁ֣וֹר וְעַד־שֶׂ֔ה מִגָּמָ֖ל וְעַד־חֲמֽוֹר׃ס

[1 Samuel 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.3/)

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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:384` 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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