--- title: 1 Samuel 25:41 (JPS 1917) — And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said:… · tree and pragmatics description: And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.' Who acts: wife, handmaid. 1 Samuel 25:41 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.763/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/25/) / [25:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.41/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 25:41 · JPS 1917 And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.' **Who acts:** wife, handmaid · **What happens:** arise, bow down, say, be, wash · **To what, where:** servant, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 25:41 · 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 (wife, handmaid), 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:763 # text = And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.' 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 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 19 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 handmaid handmaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | wife | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bow down** | past | wife *not said here* | | | | | with wife's face; to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | thy handmaid | a servant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wash** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | the feet of the servants of my lord | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | 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} וַתָּ֕קָם וַתִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ אַפַּ֖יִם אָ֑רְצָה וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּ֤ה אֲמָֽתְךָ֙ לְשִׁפְחָ֔ה לִרְחֹ֕ץ רַגְלֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי׃ [1 Samuel 25:41: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.41/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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