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title: 1 Samuel 15:23 (JPS 1917) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as id… · tree and pragmatics
description: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Who acts: rebellion, stubbornness. 1 Samuel 15:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.

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**Who acts:** rebellion, stubbornness · **What happens:** be

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This is 1 Samuel 15:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (rebellion, stubbornness), 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:406
# text = For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	idolatry	idolatry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	teraphim	teraphim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | rebellion |  |  |  |  | as the sin and idolatry and teraphim; of witchcraft | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | stubbornness |  |  |  |  | as idolatry and teraphim | 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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כִּ֤י חַטַּאת־קֶ֙סֶם֙ מֶ֔רִי וְאָ֥וֶן וּתְרָפִ֖ים הַפְצַ֑ר יַ֗עַן מָאַ֙סְתָּ֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֖ מִמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

[1 Samuel 15:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.**
2. [Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.407/)

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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:406` 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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