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title: 1 Samuel 16:4 (JPS 1917) — And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. Who acts: Samuel, LORD. 1 Samuel 16:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 16:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, LORD · **What happens:** do, speak, come · **To what, where:** that, Beth lehem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 16:4 · 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, 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:425
# text = And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lehem	Beth-lehem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **do** | past | Samuel | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Samuel *not said here* |  |  | Beth lehem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beth-lehem=Initial\_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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וַיַּ֣עַשׂ שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל אֵ֚ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֖א בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם וַיֶּחֶרְד֞וּ זִקְנֵ֤י הָעִיר֙ לִקְרָאת֔וֹ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר שָׁלֹ֥ם בּוֹאֶֽךָ׃

[1 Samuel 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem.**
2. [And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.426/)

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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:425` 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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