--- title: 1 Samuel 2:13 (JPS 1917) — And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any ma… · tree and pragmatics description: And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band; Who acts: man, servant, flesh. 1 Samuel 2:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.42/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/2/) / [2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 2:13 · JPS 1917 And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band; **Who acts:** man, servant, flesh · **What happens:** offer, come, be · **To what, where:** sacrifice, seething This is 1 Samuel 2:13 · 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 (man, servant, flesh), 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:42 # text = And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 18 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 csubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 seething seethe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 amod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | past | any man | sacrifice | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | the priest's servant | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | the flesh | seething | | | | with a flesh hook of three teeth in servant's band | tree rules | 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} וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־הָעָ֑ם כָּל־אִ֞ישׁ זֹבֵ֣חַ זֶ֗בַח וּבָ֨א נַ֤עַר הַכֹּהֵן֙ כְּבַשֵּׁ֣ל הַבָּשָׂ֔ר וְהַמַּזְלֵ֛ג שְׁלֹ֥שׁ־הַשִּׁנַּ֖יִם בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ [1 Samuel 2:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:42` 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 2:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.41/) - next →: [1 Samuel 2:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.43/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/)