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title: 1 Samuel 16:10 (JPS 1917) — And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.' · tree and pragmatics
description: And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.' Who acts: Samuel, LORD. 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 2 of 2

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And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.'

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**Who acts:** Samuel, LORD · **What happens:** say, not choose · **To what, where:** these · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 16:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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:435
# text = And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel |  |  |  |  | unto Jesse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **choose** | present · perfect | the LORD | these |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.434/)
2. **And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.'**

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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:435` 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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