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title: 1 Samuel 15:33 (JPS 1917) — And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. Who acts: Samuel, sword, mother. 1 Samuel 15:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 15:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, sword, mother · **What happens:** say, make, be · **To what, where:** women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 15:33 · 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, sword, mother), 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:418
# text = And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
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	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | thy sword | women |  |  |  | childless *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woman=Product |
| 3 | **is** | shall | thy mother |  |  |  |  | among women; childless *property* | 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר שִׁכְּלָ֤ה נָשִׁים֙ חַרְבֶּ֔ךָ כֵּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ל מִנָּשִׁ֖ים אִמֶּ֑ךָ וַיְשַׁסֵּ֨ף שְׁמוּאֵ֧ל אֶת־אֲגָ֛ג לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בַּגִּלְגָּֽל׃ס

[1 Samuel 15:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.33/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.**
2. [And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.419/)

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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:418` 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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