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title: 1 Samuel 26:22 — And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it. Who acts: David, one. 1 Samuel 26:22 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 26:22 שְׁמוּאֵל א

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**Who acts:** David, one · **What happens:** answer, say, let, come over, fetch · **To what, where:** spear · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is 1 Samuel 26:22 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — David, one — and what happens in the verse to spear, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 31 chapters of 1 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיַּ֤עַן דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר הִנֵּ֖ה חֲנִ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְיַעֲבֹ֛ר אֶחָ֥ד מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֖ים וְיִקָּחֶֽהָ׃

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[And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.792/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:1SA:715
# text = וַיַּ֤עַן דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר הִנֵּ֖ה חֲנִ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְיַעֲבֹ֛ר אֶחָ֥ד מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֖ים וְיִקָּחֶֽהָ׃
# verse = 1SA.26.22
1-2	וַיַּ֤עַן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_26:22!1|MId=o090260220011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּ֤עַן	עָנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.answered|Ref=1SA_26:22!1|MId=o090260220012|Strong=6030|Frame=A0:090260220021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	דָּוִד֙	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=David|Ref=1SA_26:22!2|MId=o090260220021|Strong=1732
4-5	וַיֹּ֔אמֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_26:22!3|MId=o090260220031|Strong=2050b
5	יֹּ֔אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=1SA_26:22!3|MId=o090260220032|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:090260220021;|Type=wayyiqtol
6	הִנֵּ֖ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	_	7	discourse	_	Gloss=here!|Ref=1SA_26:22!4|MId=o090260220041|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative
7	חֲנִ֣ית	חֲנִית	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	Gloss=the.spear|Ref=1SA_26:22!6|MId=o090260220061|Strong=2595
8-9	הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	9	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=1SA_26:22!7|MId=o090260220071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
9	מֶּ֑לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.king|Ref=1SA_26:22!7|MId=o090260220072|Strong=4428
10-11	וְיַעֲבֹ֛ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_26:22!8|MId=o090260220081|Strong=2050b
11	יַעֲבֹ֛ר	עָבַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	7	conj	_	Gloss=let.him.pass.over|Ref=1SA_26:22!8|MId=o090260220082|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:090260220091;|Type=yiqtol
12	אֶחָ֥ד	אֶחָד	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Gloss=one|Ref=1SA_26:22!9|MId=o090260220091|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number
13-15	מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֖ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	מֵֽ	מִן	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=1SA_26:22!10|MId=o090260220101|Strong=4480
14	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	15	det	_	Gloss=the.young|Ref=1SA_26:22!10|MId=o090260220102|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
15	נְּעָרִ֖ים	נַעַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Gloss=men|Ref=1SA_26:22!10|MId=o090260220103|Strong=5288
16-18	וְיִקָּחֶֽהָ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	17	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_26:22!11|MId=o090260220111|Strong=2050b
17	יִקָּח	לָקַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	7	conj	_	Gloss=let|Ref=1SA_26:22!11|MId=o090260220112|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:090260220091;A1:090260220113;|Type=yiqtol
18	ֶֽהָ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	Gloss=him.take.it|Ref=1SA_26:22!11|MId=o090260220113|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=1SA_26:22!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּעַן *he answered* | wayyiqtol · qal | דָּוִד *David* |  |  |  |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | דָּוִד *David* |  |  |  |
| יַעֲבֹר *let him pass over* | yiqtol · qal | אֶחָד *one* |  |  |  |
| יִקָּח *let* | yiqtol · qal | אֶחָד *one* | ֶֽהָ *him take it* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וַאֲתֵיב דָוִד וַאֲמַר הָא מוּרְנִיתָא דְמַלְכָּא וְיֶעְבַּר חַד מֵעוּלֵמַיָא וְיִסְבָהּ:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.792/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:1SA:715`.

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