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title: 1 Samuel 15:23 (JPS 1917) — Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also reject… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.' Who acts: thou, LORD. 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 2 of 2

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Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.'

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** reject, be, word · **To what, where:** word, thee, king, LORD

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This is 1 Samuel 15:23 · 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 (thou, 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:407
# text = Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.'
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rejected	reject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rejected	reject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **reject** | present · perfect | thou | the word of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **reject** | present · perfect | LORD | thee |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.406/)
2. **Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.'**

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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:407` 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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