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title: 1 Samuel 24:15 (JPS 1917) — After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou purs… · tree and pragmatics
description: After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. Who acts: king, thou. 1 Samuel 24:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 24:15 · JPS 1917

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After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

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**Who acts:** king, thou · **What happens:** come out, pursue

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This is 1 Samuel 24:15 · 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 (king, thou), 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:711
# text = After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obl	_	_
13	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flea	flea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, voice=character, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present · passive | the king of Israel |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pursue** | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  | after a dead dog; after a flea |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after whom=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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אַחֲרֵ֨י מִ֤י יָצָא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַחֲרֵ֥י מִ֖י אַתָּ֣ה רֹדֵ֑ף אַֽחֲרֵי֙ כֶּ֣לֶב מֵ֔ת אַחֲרֵ֖י פַּרְעֹ֥שׁ אֶחָֽד׃

[1 Samuel 24:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.15/)

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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:711` 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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