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title: 1 Samuel 3:17 (JPS 1917) — I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also,… · tree and pragmatics
description: I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.' Who acts: I, God, thou. 1 Samuel 3:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 3:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.'

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**Who acts:** I, God, thou · **What happens:** pray, not hide, do, hide, speak · **To what, where:** thee, thing, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 3:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, God, thou), 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:89
# text = I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hide** | present | I *not said here* | thing |  |  |  | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | God |  |  |  |  | to thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | any thing of all things |  |  |  | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Patient from i=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | God | all things |  |  |  | unto thee | 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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מָ֤ה הַדָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֣ר אֵלֶ֔יךָ אַל־נָ֥א תְכַחֵ֖ד מִמֶּ֑נִּי כֹּ֣ה יַעֲשֶׂה־לְּךָ֤ אֱלֹהִים֙ וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֔יף אִם־תְּכַחֵ֤ד מִמֶּ֙נִּי֙ דָּבָ֔ר מִכָּל־הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

[1 Samuel 3:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.3.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he said: 'What is the thing that He hath spoken unto thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.88/)
2. **I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.'**

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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:89` 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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