--- title: 1 Samuel 16:13 (JPS 1917) — Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of h… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. Who acts: Samuel, spirit. 1 Samuel 16:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.440/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/16/) / [16:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.13/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 16:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. **Who acts:** Samuel, spirit · **What happens:** take, anoint, come · **To what, where:** horn, Samuel, midst, David This is 1 Samuel 16:13 · 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 (Samuel, spirit), 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:440 # text = Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 anointed anoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 mightily mightily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 forward forward ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Samuel | the horn of oil | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | | 2 | **anoint** | past | Samuel *not said here* | Samuel | | the midst of Samuel's brethren | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 3 | **come** | past | the spirit of the LORD | | | David | day | mightily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon david=Location | 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} וַיִּקַּ֨ח שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל אֶת־קֶ֣רֶן הַשֶּׁ֗מֶן וַיִּמְשַׁ֣ח אֹתוֹ֮ בְּקֶ֣רֶב אֶחָיו֒ וַתִּצְלַ֤ח רֽוּחַ־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד מֵהַיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא וָמָ֑עְלָה וַיָּ֣קָם שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ הָרָמָֽתָה׃ס [1 Samuel 16:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward.** 2. [So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.441/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:440` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 16:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.439/) - next →: [1 Samuel 16:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.441/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 16:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.13/)