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title: 1 Samuel 25:38 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died. Who acts: LORD. 1 Samuel 25:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 25:38 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** come, pass, smite, die · **To what, where:** feast, Nabal

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This is 1 Samuel 25:38 · 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 (LORD), 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:760
# text = And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	after	after	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
15	Nabal	Nabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smite** | past | the LORD | Nabal |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nabal=Experiencer |
| 4 | **die** | past | lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וַיְהִ֖י כַּעֲשֶׂ֣רֶת הַיָּמִ֑ים וַיִּגֹּ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־נָבָ֖ל וַיָּמֹֽת׃

[1 Samuel 25:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.38/)

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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:760` 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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