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title: 1 Samuel 20:31 (JPS 1917) — For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt no… · tree and pragmatics
description: For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Who acts: son. 1 Samuel 20:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** live, not establish · **To what, where:** earth, thou

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This is 1 Samuel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (son), 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:608
# text = For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the son of Jesse |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
| 2 | **not** **establish** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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כִּ֣י כָל־הַיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בֶּן־יִשַׁי֙ חַ֣י עַל־הָאֲדָמָ֔ה לֹ֥א תִכּ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה וּמַלְכוּתֶ֑ךָ וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁלַ֨ח וְקַ֤ח אֹתוֹ֙ אֵלַ֔י כִּ֥י בֶן־מָ֖וֶת הֽוּא׃ס

[1 Samuel 20:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.**
2. [Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.609/)

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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:608` 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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