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title: 1 Samuel 28:6 (JPS 1917) — And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neith… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Who acts: Saul, LORD. 1 Samuel 28:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 28:6 · JPS 1917

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And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

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**Who acts:** Saul, LORD · **What happens:** inquire, not answer · **To what, where:** Saul

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This is 1 Samuel 28:6 · 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 (Saul, 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:816
# text = And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc:preconj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Urim	Urim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Saul |  |  |  |  | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  | Saul |  |  | by dreams nor Urim nor prophets | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל שָׁאוּל֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א עָנָ֖הוּ יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֧ם בַּחֲלֹמ֛וֹת גַּ֥ם בָּאוּרִ֖ים גַּ֥ם בַּנְּבִיאִֽם׃

[1 Samuel 28:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.6/)

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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:816` 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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