--- title: 1 Samuel 19:6 (JPS 1917) — And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As t… · tree and pragmatics description: And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As the LORD liveth, he shall not be put to death.' Who acts: Saul, LORD. 1 Samuel 19:6 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.553/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/19/) / [19:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.6/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 19:6 · JPS 1917 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As the LORD liveth, he shall not be put to death.' **Who acts:** Saul, LORD · **What happens:** hearken, swear, live, not put · **To what, where:** LORD This is 1 Samuel 19:6 · 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, LORD), 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:553 # text = And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As the LORD liveth, he shall not be put to death.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 15 As as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 put put VERB VBN VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hearken** | past | Saul | | | | | unto the voice of Jonathan | tree rules | | 2 | **swear** | past | Saul | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **put** | shall · passive | | LORD | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | 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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע שָׁא֖וּל בְּק֣וֹל יְהוֹנָתָ֑ן וַיִּשָּׁבַ֣ע שָׁא֔וּל חַי־יְהוָ֖ה אִם־יוּמָֽת׃ [1 Samuel 19:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:553` 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 19:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.552/) - next →: [1 Samuel 19:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.554/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 19:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.6/)