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title: 1 Samuel 15:7 (JPS 1917) — And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt. Who acts: Saul, thou, Shur. 1 Samuel 15:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:7 · JPS 1917

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And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt.

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**Who acts:** Saul, thou, Shur · **What happens:** smite, go, be · **To what, where:** Amalekites, Havilah, Shur, front

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This is 1 Samuel 15:7 · 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, thou, Shur), 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:388
# text = And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	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	Amalekites	Amalekites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Havilah	Havilah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Shur	Shur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Saul | the Amalekites |  | Havilah |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus amalekites=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | present | thou |  |  | Shur |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shur=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | Shur |  |  | front |  | of Egypt | 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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וַיַּ֥ךְ שָׁא֖וּל אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֑ק מֵֽחֲוִילָה֙ בּוֹאֲךָ֣ שׁ֔וּר אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[1 Samuel 15:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.7/)

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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:388` 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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