--- title: 1 Samuel 17:29 (JPS 1917) — And David said: 'What have I now done? · tree and pragmatics description: And David said: 'What have I now done? Who acts: David, I. 1 Samuel 17:29 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.481/) [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/) / [17:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.29/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 17:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And David said: 'What have I now done? **Who acts:** David, I · **What happens:** say, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 17:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, I), 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:481 # text = And David said: 'What have I now done? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 6 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect | I | | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔ד מֶ֥ה עָשִׂ֖יתִי עָ֑תָּה הֲל֖וֹא דָּבָ֥ר הֽוּא׃ [1 Samuel 17:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.29/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And David said: 'What have I now done?** 2. [Was it not but a word?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.482/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:481` 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 17:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.480/) - next →: [1 Samuel 17:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.482/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 17:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.29/)