--- title: 1 Samuel 15:17 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel; · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel; Who acts: LORD. 1 Samuel 15:17 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.399/) [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/) / [15:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.17/) / JPS 2 # 1 Samuel 15:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel; **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** anoint · **To what, where:** thee, Israel This is 1 Samuel 15:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (LORD), 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:399 # text = And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 anointed anoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **anoint** | past | the LORD | thee | | Israel | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל הֲל֗וֹא אִם־קָטֹ֤ן אַתָּה֙ בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ רֹ֛אשׁ שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אָ֑תָּה וַיִּמְשָׁחֲךָ֧ יְהוָ֛ה לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [1 Samuel 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And Samuel said: 'Though thou be little in thine own sight, art thou not head of the tribes of Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.398/) 2. **And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel;** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:399` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 15:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.398/) - next →: [1 Samuel 15:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.400/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 15:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.17/)