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title: 1 Samuel 16:5 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanct… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.' And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. Who acts: LORD, I. 1 Samuel 16:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 16:5 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.' And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** say, be, sacrifice, sanctify, come, call · **To what, where:** yourselves, sacrifice, Jesse, sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 16:5 · 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 (LORD, I), 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:427
# text = And he said: 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.' And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Peaceably	peaceably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	come	come	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sanctified	sanctify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD |  |  |  |  | peaceably *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sanctify** | infinitive |  | yourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | the sacrifice |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sacrifice=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **sanctify** | past | LORD | Jesse and LORD's sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **call** | past | LORD *not said here* | sons *= son* | the sacrifice |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to sacrifice=Recipient |

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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 ׀ שָׁל֗וֹם לִזְבֹּ֤חַ לַֽיהוָה֙ בָּ֔אתִי הִֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּ וּבָאתֶ֥ם אִתִּ֖י בַּזָּ֑בַח וַיְקַדֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־יִשַׁי֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֔יו וַיִּקְרָ֥א לָהֶ֖ם לַזָּֽבַח׃

[1 Samuel 16:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.5/)

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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:427` of Mova's parse database.

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