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title: 1 Samuel 18:8 (JPS 1917) — And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!' Who acts: Saul, saying, women, all. 1 Samuel 18:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# 1 Samuel 18:8 · JPS 1917

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And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!'

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**Who acts:** Saul, saying, women, all · **What happens:** be, displease, say, ascribe, lack · **To what, where:** Saul, ten thousands, me, kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 18:8 · 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 (Saul, saying, women, all), 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:522
# text = And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	displeased	displease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	nsubj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	lacketh	lack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Saul |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **displease** | past | this saying | Saul |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ascribe** | present · perfect | women *= woman* | ten thousands |  |  |  | unto David | tree rules |
| 5 | **ascribe** | present · perfect | women *= woman* |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lack** | present | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | all | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיִּ֨חַר לְשָׁא֜וּל מְאֹ֗ד וַיֵּ֤רַע בְּעֵינָיו֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר נָתְנ֤וּ לְדָוִד֙ רְבָב֔וֹת וְלִ֥י נָתְנ֖וּ הָאֲלָפִ֑ים וְע֥וֹד ל֖וֹ אַ֥ךְ הַמְּלוּכָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 18:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.8/)

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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:522` 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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