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title: 1 Samuel 2:20 (JPS 1917) — And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.' And they would go unto their own home. Who acts: Eli, LORD, men. 1 Samuel 2:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 2:20 · JPS 1917

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And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.' And they would go unto their own home.

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**Who acts:** Eli, LORD, men · **What happens:** bless, say, give, lend, go · **To what, where:** Elkanah, seed, thee, loan, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 2:20 · 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 (Eli, LORD, men), 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:50
# text = And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.' And they would go unto their own home.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Elkanah	Elkanah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	iobj	_	_
18	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
33	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
37	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | would | Eli | Elkanah and Eli's wife |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elkanah=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | the LORD | seed of this woman | thee |  |  | for the loan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient seed=Theme for loan=Asset |
| 4 | **lend** | past · passive |  | the loan | the LORD |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to lord=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | would | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | unto men's own home | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וּבֵרַ֨ךְ עֵלִ֜י אֶת־אֶלְקָנָ֣ה וְאֶת־אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ וְאָמַר֙ יָשֵׂם֩ יְהוָ֨ה לְךָ֥ זֶ֙רַע֙ מִן־הָאִשָּׁ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את תַּ֚חַת הַשְּׁאֵלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁאַ֖ל לַֽיהוָ֑ה וְהָלְכ֖וּ לִמְקֹמֽוֹ׃

[1 Samuel 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.20/)

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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:50` 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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