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title: 1 Samuel 15:4 (JPS 1917) — And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundr… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. Who acts: Saul. 1 Samuel 15:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:4 · JPS 1917

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And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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**Who acts:** Saul · **What happens:** summon, number · **To what, where:** people, Telaim

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This is 1 Samuel 15:4 · 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), 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:385
# text = And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	numbered	number	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Telaim	Telaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **summon** | past | Saul |  | the people |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 2 | **number** | past | Saul *not said here* | people |  |  |  | in Telaim *goal*; thousand footmen and thousand men of Judah *obl:unmarked* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme in telaim=Goal |

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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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וַיְשַׁמַּ֤ע שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וַֽיִּפְקְדֵם֙ בַּטְּלָאִ֔ים מָאתַ֥יִם אֶ֖לֶף רַגְלִ֑י וַעֲשֶׂ֥רֶת אֲלָפִ֖ים אֶת־אִ֥ישׁ יְהוּדָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 15:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.4/)

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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:385` 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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