--- title: 1 Samuel 16:22 (JPS 1917) — And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand befor… · tree and pragmatics description: And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.' Who acts: Saul, David, I, my. 1 Samuel 16:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.450/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/16/) / [16:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.22/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 16:22 · JPS 1917 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.' **Who acts:** Saul, David, I, my · **What happens:** send, say, let, pray, stand, find · **To what, where:** Jesse, thee, favour, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 16:22 · 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 (Saul, David, I, my), 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:450 # text = And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Jesse Jesse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 25 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Saul | | Jesse | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to jesse=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Saul *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | David | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | infinitive | David *not said here* | | | | before me | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location | | 6 | **find** | present · perfect | David | favour | | my sight | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 7 | **sight** | | my | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח שָׁא֔וּל אֶל־יִשַׁ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר יַעֲמָד־נָ֤א דָוִד֙ לְפָנַ֔י כִּֽי־מָ֥צָא חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינָֽי׃ [1 Samuel 16:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:450` 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 16:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.449/) - next →: [1 Samuel 16:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.451/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 16:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.16.22/)