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title: 1 Samuel 15:32 (JPS 1917) — Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalek… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains. Who acts: Samuel, ye, Agag. 1 Samuel 15:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, ye, Agag · **What happens:** say, bring, come · **To what, where:** Agag, me, chains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 15:32 · 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 (Samuel, ye, Agag), 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:416
# text = Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
8	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
11	Agag	Agag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Amalekites	amalekite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Agag	Agag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | ye | Agag | me |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent agag=Theme to i=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | Agag |  |  | chains |  | unto Samuel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chain=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל הַגִּ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אֶת־אֲגַג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אֵלָ֔יו אֲגַ֖ג מַעֲדַנֹּ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲגָ֔ג אָכֵ֖ן סָ֥ר מַר־הַמָּֽוֶת׃ס

[1 Samuel 15:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.32/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains.**
2. [And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.417/)

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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:416` 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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