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title: 1 Samuel 3:18 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.' · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.' Who acts: Samuel, word. 1 Samuel 3:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 3:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.'

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**Who acts:** Samuel, word · **What happens:** say, be, let, do, seem · **To what, where:** LORD, Samuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 3:18 · 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 (Samuel, word), 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:91
# text = And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemeth	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samuel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | word | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | word *not said here* | Samuel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | Samuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | present |  |  | Samuel |  |  | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute |

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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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וַיַּגֶּד־ל֤וֹ שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א כִחֵ֖ד מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וַיֹּאמַ֕ר יְהוָ֣ה ה֔וּא הַטּ֥וֹב בְּעֵינָ֖ויַעֲשֶֽׂה׃פ

[1 Samuel 3:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.3.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Samuel told him all the words, and hid nothing from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.90/)
2. **And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.'**

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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:91` 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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