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title: 1 Samuel 17:4 (JPS 1917) — And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, name… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. Who acts: champion, height. 1 Samuel 17:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 17:4 · JPS 1917

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And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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**Who acts:** champion, height · **What happens:** go out, name, be · **To what, where:** champion, six cubits

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This is 1 Samuel 17:4 · 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 (champion, height), 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:455
# text = And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
15	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Gath	Gath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | a champion from the camp of the Philistines |  |  | there |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a champion from the camp of the Philistines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | six cubits and a span's height | six cubits and a span |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ־הַבֵּנַ֙יִם֙ מִמַּחֲנ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים גָּלְיָ֥ת שְׁמ֖וֹ מִגַּ֑ת גָּבְה֕וֹ שֵׁ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת וָזָֽרֶת׃

[1 Samuel 17:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.4/)

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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:455` 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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