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title: 1 Samuel 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt o… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent. Who acts: Samuel, hold. 1 Samuel 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, hold · **What happens:** turn about, go away, lay, rend · **To what, where:** hold, skirt

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This is 1 Samuel 15:27 · 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, hold), 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:411
# text = And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn about** | past | Samuel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Samuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Samuel | hold |  | the skirt of Samuel's robe |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme upon skirt=Destination |
| 4 | **rend** | past | hold |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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וַיִּסֹּ֥ב שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיַּחֲזֵ֥ק בִּכְנַף־מְעִיל֖וֹ וַיִּקָּרַֽע׃

[1 Samuel 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.27/)

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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:411` 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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