--- title: 1 Samuel 15:26 (JPS 1917) — And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou ha… · tree and pragmatics description: And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.' Who acts: Samuel, I, thou, LORD. 1 Samuel 15:26 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.410/) [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/) / [15:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.26/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 15:26 · JPS 1917 And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.' **Who acts:** Samuel, I, thou, LORD · **What happens:** say, not return, reject, be, word · **To what, where:** word, thee, king, Israel, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 15:26 · 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, I, 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:410 # text = And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 17 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 30 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obj _ _ 31 from from SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 cop _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 advcl _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel | | | | | unto Saul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **return** | future | I | | | | | with thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reject** | present · perfect | thou | the word of the LORD | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **reject** | present · perfect | the LORD | thee | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | king | | Israel | | | tree rules | | 6 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל לֹ֥א אָשׁ֖וּב עִמָּ֑ךְ כִּ֤י מָאַ֙סְתָּה֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֣ יְהוָ֔ה מִהְי֥וֹת מֶ֖לֶךְ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס [1 Samuel 15:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:410` 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 15:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.409/) - next →: [1 Samuel 15:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.411/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 15:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.26/)