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title: 1 Samuel 16:10 (JPS 1917) — And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Who acts: Jesse, seven. 1 Samuel 16:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 16:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.

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**Who acts:** Jesse, seven · **What happens:** make, pass · **To what, where:** seven, Samuel

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This is 1 Samuel 16:10 · 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, seven), 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:434
# text = And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	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 | **make** | past | Jesse | seven of Jesse's sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | seven of Jesse's sons *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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וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר יִשַׁ֛י שִׁבְעַ֥ת בָּנָ֖יו לִפְנֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־יִשַׁ֔י לֹא־בָחַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בָּאֵֽלֶּה׃

[1 Samuel 16:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.**
2. [And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.435/)

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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:434` 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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