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title: 1 Samuel 2:15 (JPS 1917) — Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, an… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Samuel 2:15 · JPS 1917

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Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'

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**Who acts:** fat, servant, man · **What happens:** make, smoke, come, say, sacrifice, give · **To what, where:** fat, flesh, sodden flesh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 2:15 · JPS 1917 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 (fat, servant, man), 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:45
# text = Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
39	sodden	sodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the fat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | the fat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the priest's servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priest's servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to man=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sacrifice** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive |  | flesh |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme |
| 7 | **roast** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the priest | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **have** | future | servant | sodden flesh of thee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |

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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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גַּם֮ בְּטֶרֶם֮ יַקְטִר֣וּן אֶת־הַחֵלֶב֒ וּבָ֣א ׀ נַ֣עַר הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְאָמַר֙ לָאִ֣ישׁ הַזֹּבֵ֔חַ תְּנָ֣ה בָשָׂ֔ר לִצְל֖וֹת לַכֹּהֵ֑ן וְלֹֽא־יִקַּ֧ח מִמְּךָ֛ בָּשָׂ֥ר מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל כִּ֥י אִם־חָֽי׃

[1 Samuel 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.15/)

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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:45` of Mova's parse database.

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