--- title: 1 Samuel 14:30 (JPS 1917) — How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the sp… · tree and pragmatics description: How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?' 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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 (people, greater slaughter), 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:358 # text = How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?' 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 haply haply ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 freely freely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 much much ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 34 among among ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Philistines Philistines PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the people | | | | day | of the spoil of people's enemies; freely, haply *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of spoil=Source | | 2 | **find** | past | people | the spoil of people's enemies | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 3 | **not** **be** | past · perfect | a greater slaughter among the Philistines | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spoil** | | | people's enemies | | | | | nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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} אַ֗ף כִּ֡י לוּא֩ אָכֹ֨ל אָכַ֤ל הַיּוֹם֙ הָעָ֔ם מִשְּׁלַ֥ל אֹיְבָ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָצָ֑א כִּ֥י עַתָּ֛ה לֹֽא־רָבְתָ֥ה מַכָּ֖ה בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃ [1 Samuel 14:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:358` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 14:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.357/) - next →: [1 Samuel 14:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.359/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 14:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.30/)