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title: 1 Samuel 17:18 (JPS 1917) — And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and to thy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge; Who acts: you, thou, brethren. 1 Samuel 17:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 17:18 · JPS 1917

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And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and to thy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge;

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**Who acts:** you, thou, brethren · **What happens:** bring, take, pledge · **To what, where:** ten cheeses, greetings, brethren, pledge

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This is 1 Samuel 17:18 · 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 (you, thou, brethren), 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:469
# text = And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and to thy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | this ten cheeses |  |  |  | unto the captain of cheeses's thousand | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | shall | thou | greetings |  | thy brethren |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to brethren=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | brethren's pledge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pledge=Theme |
| 4 | **pledge** |  | brethren |  |  |  |  |  | nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְ֠אֵת עֲשֶׂ֜רֶת חֲרִצֵ֤י הֶֽחָלָב֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה תָּבִ֖יא לְשַׂר־הָאָ֑לֶף וְאֶת־אַחֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּפְקֹ֣ד לְשָׁל֔וֹם וְאֶת־עֲרֻבָּתָ֖ם תִּקָּֽח׃

[1 Samuel 17:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.18/)

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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:469` of Mova's parse database.

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