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title: 1 Samuel 18:6 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaug… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments. Who acts: success, men, David, women. 1 Samuel 18:6 i
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# 1 Samuel 18:6 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

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**Who acts:** success, men, David, women · **What happens:** come, pass, return, come out, sing, dancing · **To what, where:** slaughter, cities, king, Philistine

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This is 1 Samuel 18:6 · 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 (success, men, David, women), 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:520
# text = And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	dancing	dancing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	timbrels	timbrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	_
51	stringed	stringed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | success |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | success *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | past | David |  |  | the slaughter of the Philistine |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from slaughter=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come out** | past | the women | all cities of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient city=Result |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **dancing** | gerund | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | king |  |  |  | with timbrels and stringed instruments; with joy | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Theme with timbrel=Instrument |
| 9 | **stringed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **slaughter** |  |  | the Philistine |  |  |  |  | nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗ם בְּשׁ֤וּב דָּוִד֙ מֵהַכּ֣וֹת אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י וַתֵּצֶ֨אנָה הַנָּשִׁ֜ים מִכָּל־עָרֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לָשִׁ֣יר וְהַמְּחֹל֔וֹת לִקְרַ֖את שָׁא֣וּל הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ בְּתֻפִּ֥ים בְּשִׂמְחָ֖ה וּבְשָׁלִשִֽׁים׃

[1 Samuel 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.6/)

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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:520` of Mova's parse database.

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