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title: 1 Samuel 31:11 (JPS 1917) — And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul, Who acts: inhabitants, Philistines. 1 Samuel 31:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 31:11 · JPS 1917

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And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, Philistines · **What happens:** hear, do · **To what, where:** that, Saul

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This is 1 Samuel 31:11 · 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 (inhabitants, Philistines), 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:892
# text = And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Jabesh	Jabesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **hear** | past | the inhabitants of Jabesh gilead | that |  |  |  | concern gilead | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | the Philistines |  | Saul |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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וַיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו יֹשְׁבֵ֖י יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשׂ֥וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים לְשָׁאֽוּל׃

[1 Samuel 31:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.11/)

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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:892` 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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