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title: 1 Samuel 16:12 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.' · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.' Who acts: LORD, this. 1 Samuel 16:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, this · **What happens:** say, arise, anoint, be · **To what, where:** LORD, Samuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (LORD, this), 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:439
# text = And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	anoint	anoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **arise** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **anoint** | infinitive |  | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | Samuel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.438/)
3. **And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.'**

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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:439` 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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