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title: 1 Samuel 19:24 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' Who acts: clothes, Saul. 1 Samuel 19:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 19:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'

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**Who acts:** clothes, Saul · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 19:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (clothes, Saul), 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:575
# text = Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | clothes |  |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Saul |  |  |  |  | among the prophets | 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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וַיִּפְשַׁ֨ט גַּם־ה֜וּא בְּגָדָ֗יו וַיִּתְנַבֵּ֤א גַם־הוּא֙ לִפְנֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיִּפֹּ֣ל עָרֹ֔ם כָּל־הַיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא וְכָל־הַלָּ֑יְלָה עַל־כֵּן֙ יֹֽאמְר֔וּ הֲגַ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל בַּנְּבִיאִֽם׃פ

[1 Samuel 19:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.574/)
2. **Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'**

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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:575` 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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