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title: 1 Samuel 25:31 (JPS 1917) — And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.' Who acts: LORD, you. 1 Samuel 25:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 25:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, you · **What happens:** deal, remember · **To what, where:** handmaid

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This is 1 Samuel 25:31 · 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 (LORD, you), 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:753
# text = And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | shall · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | with my lord; well *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lord=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy handmaid |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent handmaid=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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וְלֹ֣א תִהְיֶ֣ה זֹ֣את ׀ לְךָ֡ לְפוּקָה֩ וּלְמִכְשׁ֨וֹל לֵ֜ב לַאדֹנִ֗י וְלִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּם֙ חִנָּ֔ם וּלְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֲדֹנִ֖י ל֑וֹ וְהֵיטִ֤ב יְהוָה֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י וְזָכַרְתָּ֖ אֶת־אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ס

[1 Samuel 25:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [that this shall be no stumbling-block unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.752/)
2. **And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'**

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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:753` 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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