--- title: 1 Samuel 15:18 (JPS 1917) — and the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destro… · tree and pragmatics description: and the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 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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:400 # text = and the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 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 sent send 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 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sinners sinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Amalekites Amalekites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 be be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the LORD | thee | | a journey | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **destroy** | infinitive | | the sinners | | | | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinner=Patient | | 5 | **fight** | infinitive | | | | | | against Amalekites | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **consume** | present · passive | | sinners *= sinner* | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | 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} וַיִּשְׁלָחֲךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה בְּדָ֑רֶךְ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֵ֣ךְ וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֞ה אֶת־הַֽחַטָּאִים֙ אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֔ק וְנִלְחַמְתָּ֣ ב֔וֹ עַ֥ד כַּלּוֹתָ֖ם אֹתָֽם׃ [1 Samuel 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:400` 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.399/) - next →: [1 Samuel 15:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.401/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 15:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.18/)