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title: 1 Samuel 3:9 (JPS 1917) — Therefore Eli said unto Samuel: 'Go, lie down; and it shall be, if t… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Samuel 3:9 · JPS 1917

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Therefore Eli said unto Samuel: 'Go, lie down; and it shall be, if thou be called, that thou shalt say: Speak, LORD; for Thy servant heareth.' So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

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**Who acts:** Eli, thou, servant, Samuel · **What happens:** say, go, lie down, call, speak, hear · **To what, where:** thou, LORD, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 3:9 · 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 (Eli, thou, servant, Samuel), 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:79
# text = Therefore Eli said unto Samuel: 'Go, lie down; and it shall be, if thou be called, that thou shalt say: Speak, LORD; for Thy servant heareth.' So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	heareth	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
38	So	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Eli |  |  |  |  | unto Samuel; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | present | Thy servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **go** | past | Samuel |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **lie down** | past | Samuel *not said here* |  |  | LORD's place |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵלִ֣י לִשְׁמוּאֵל֮ לֵ֣ךְ שְׁכָב֒ וְהָיָה֙ אִם־יִקְרָ֣א אֵלֶ֔יךָ וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ דַּבֵּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י שֹׁמֵ֖עַ עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיִּשְׁכַּ֖ב בִּמְקוֹמֽוֹ׃

[1 Samuel 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.3.9/)

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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:79` of Mova's parse database.

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