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title: 1 Samuel 16:12 (JPS 1917) — Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look u… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Samuel 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.

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**Who acts:** Samuel · **What happens:** be, look

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This is 1 Samuel 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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), 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:438
# text = Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	withal	withal	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | past | Samuel |  |  |  | now | ruddy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Samuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Samuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ וְה֣וּא אַדְמוֹנִ֔י עִם־יְפֵ֥ה עֵינַ֖יִם וְט֣וֹב רֹ֑אִיפ וַיֹּ֧אמֶר יְהוָ֛ה ק֥וּם מְשָׁחֵ֖הוּ כִּֽי־זֶ֥ה הֽוּא׃

[1 Samuel 16:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he sent, and brought him in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.437/)
2. **Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.**
3. [And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.439/)

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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:438` 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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