--- title: 1 Samuel 31:8 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to stri… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. Who acts: Jordan, Philistines, Saul. 1 Samuel 31:8 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.889/) [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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/31/) / [31:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.8/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 31:8 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. **Who acts:** Jordan, Philistines, Saul · **What happens:** come, pass, strip, find, fall · **To what, where:** morrow, slain, Saul, mount This is 1 Samuel 31:8 · 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 (Jordan, Philistines, Saul), 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:889 # text = And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 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 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Philistines philistine PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 strip strip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 slain slain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 22 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 xcomp _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 Gilboa Gilboa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Jordan | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Jordan *not said here* | | | the morrow | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location | | 3 | **come** | past | the Philistines | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **strip** | to-infinitive | the Philistines *not said here* | the slain | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Patient | | 5 | **find** | past | Philistines *= philistine* | Saul and Saul's three sons | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent saul=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | participle | Saul and Saul's three sons *not said here* | | | mount | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mount=Location | 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} וַֽיְהִי֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים לְפַשֵּׁ֖ט אֶת־הַחֲלָלִ֑ים וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּ אֶת־שָׁאוּל֙ וְאֶת־שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת בָּנָ֔יו נֹפְלִ֖ים בְּהַ֥ר הַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ [1 Samuel 31:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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