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title: 1 Samuel 3:14 (JPS 1917) — And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity… · tree and pragmatics
description: And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.' Who acts: I. 1 Samuel 3:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 3:14 · JPS 1917

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And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** swear, not expiate · **To what, where:** iniquity

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This is 1 Samuel 3:14 · 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 (I), 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:84
# text = And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	expiated	expiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	27	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **swear** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | unto the house of Eli; therefore *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **expiate** | shall · passive |  | the iniquity of Eli's house |  |  |  | with sacrifice nor offering | tree rules |

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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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וְלָכֵ֥ן נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לְבֵ֣ית עֵלִ֑י אִֽם־יִתְכַּפֵּ֞ר עֲוֺ֧ן בֵּית־עֵלִ֛י בְּזֶ֥בַח וּבְמִנְחָ֖ה עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

[1 Samuel 3:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.3.14/)

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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:84` 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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