--- title: 1 Samuel 15:13 (JPS 1917) — And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him: 'Blessed be thou of… · tree and pragmatics description: And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him: 'Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD.' Who acts: Samuel, Saul, LORD, I. 1 Samuel 15:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.394/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/15/) / [15:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.13/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 15:13 · JPS 1917 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him: 'Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD.' **Who acts:** Samuel, Saul, LORD, I · **What happens:** come, say, bless, perform, command · **To what, where:** Saul, thou, commandment, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 15:13 · 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 (Samuel, Saul, LORD, I), 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:394 # text = And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him: 'Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl:agent _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Samuel | | | Saul | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to saul=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul | | | | | unto Samuel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | the LORD | thou | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **perform** | present · perfect | I | the commandment of the LORD | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme | | 5 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיָּבֹ֥א שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל אֶל־שָׁא֑וּל וַיֹּ֧אמֶר ל֣וֹ שָׁא֗וּל בָּר֤וּךְ אַתָּה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה הֲקִימֹ֖תִי אֶת־דְּבַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃ [1 Samuel 15:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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