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title: 1 Samuel 16:8 (JPS 1917) — Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. Who acts: Jesse. 1 Samuel 16:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 16:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.

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**Who acts:** Jesse · **What happens:** call, make, pass · **To what, where:** Abinadab, Jesse, Samuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 16:8 · 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 (Jesse), 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:430
# text = Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Abinadab	Abinadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Jesse |  | Abinadab |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abinadab=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past | Jesse *not said here* | Jesse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | Jesse *not said here* |  |  | Samuel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before samuel=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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וַיִּקְרָ֤א יִשַׁי֙ אֶל־אֲבִ֣ינָדָ֔ב וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֖הוּ לִפְנֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל וַיֹּ֕אמֶר גַּם־בָּזֶ֖ה לֹֽא־בָחַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 16:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.**
2. [And he said: 'Neither hath the LORD chosen this.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.431/)

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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:430` 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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