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title: 1 Samuel 25:24 (JPS 1917) — And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid. Who acts: Abigail, handmaid, I, thou. 1 Samuel 25:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# 1 Samuel 25:24 · JPS 1917

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And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.

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**Who acts:** Abigail, handmaid, I, thou · **What happens:** fall, say, be, let, pray, speak · **To what, where:** feet, iniquity, thee, ears, words, handmaid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 25:24 · 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 (Abigail, handmaid, I, 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:745
# text = And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
12	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	vocative	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Abigail |  |  | David's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abigail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | the iniquity |  |  |  | upon me; upon me; my lord *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | thy handmaid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thy handmaid *not said here* |  |  | thine ears |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hear** | infinitive | thou | the words of thy handmaid |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | thy handmaid |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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וַתִּפֹּל֙ עַל־רַגְלָ֔יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר בִּי־אֲנִ֥י אֲדֹנִ֖י הֶֽעָוֺ֑ן וּֽתְדַבֶּר־נָ֤א אֲמָֽתְךָ֙ בְּאָזְנֶ֔יךָ וּשְׁמַ֕ע אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃

[1 Samuel 25:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.24/)

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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:745` of Mova's parse database.

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