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title: 1 Samuel 15:11 (JPS 1917) — 'It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turne… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments.' And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night. Who acts: I, Saul, thing, My. 1 Samuel 15:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# 1 Samuel 15:11 · JPS 1917

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'It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments.' And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

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**Who acts:** I, Saul, thing, My · **What happens:** repent, set up, be, turn back, follow, not perform · **To what, where:** thing, Saul, king, Me, commandments, Samuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 15:11 · 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 (I, Saul, thing, My), 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:392
# text = 'It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments.' And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	repenteth	repent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
22	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
28	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repent** | present |  | thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set up** | present · perfect | I | Saul |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient saul=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn back** | present · passive | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund | Saul *not said here* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **perform** | present · perfect | Saul *not said here* | My commandments |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 7 | **grieve** | past | thing | Samuel |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus samuel=Experiencer |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Saul |  |  |  | night | unto the LORD | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **command** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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נִחַ֗מְתִּי כִּֽי־הִמְלַ֤כְתִּי אֶת־שָׁאוּל֙ לְמֶ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי־שָׁב֙ מֵאַֽחֲרַ֔י וְאֶת־דְּבָרַ֖י לֹ֣א הֵקִ֑ים וַיִּ֙חַר֙ לִשְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיִּזְעַ֥ק אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה׃

[1 Samuel 15:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.11/)

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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:392` 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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