--- title: 1 Samuel 17:9 (JPS 1917) — If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your se… · tree and pragmatics description: If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.' Who acts: champion, we, I, ye. 1 Samuel 17:9 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.460/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/17/) / [17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.9/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 17:9 · JPS 1917 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.' **Who acts:** champion, we, I, ye · **What happens:** be, fight, kill, prevail, serve · **To what, where:** me, servants, champion, us This is 1 Samuel 17:9 · 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, we, I, ye), 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:460 # text = If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.' 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 prevail prevail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 34 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 41 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | champion | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | champion *not said here* | | | | | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | | 3 | **kill** | infinitive | champion *not said here* | me | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | future | we | your servants but our servants | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **prevail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | | | | against champion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location | | 6 | **kill** | infinitive | I *not said here* | champion | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | shall | ye | our servants | | | then | | tree rules | | 8 | **serve** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | us | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute | 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} אִם־יוּכַ֞ל לְהִלָּחֵ֤ם אִתִּי֙ וְהִכָּ֔נִי וְהָיִ֥ינוּ לָכֶ֖ם לַעֲבָדִ֑ים וְאִם־אֲנִ֤י אֽוּכַל־לוֹ֙ וְהִכִּיתִ֔יו וִהְיִ֤יתֶם לָ֙נוּ֙ לַעֲבָדִ֔ים וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם אֹתָֽנוּ׃ [1 Samuel 17:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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