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title: 1 Samuel 17:15 (JPS 1917) — Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. — Who acts: David. 1 Samuel 17:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 17:15 · JPS 1917

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Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. —

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** go, feed · **To what, where:** Saul, sheep, Beth lehem

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This is 1 Samuel 17:15 · 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 (David), 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:466
# text = Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. —
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lehem	lehem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | David |  |  | Saul | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from saul=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* |  | David's father's sheep | Beth lehem |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |

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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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וְדָוִ֛ד הֹלֵ֥ךְ וָשָׁ֖ב מֵעַ֣ל שָׁא֑וּל לִרְע֛וֹת אֶת־צֹ֥אן אָבִ֖יו בֵּֽית־לָֽחֶםבֵּֽית־לָֽחֶם׃

[1 Samuel 17:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.15/)

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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:466` 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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