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title: 1 Samuel 18:20 (JPS 1917) — And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Who acts: daughter, life, thing. 1 Samuel 18:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 18:20 · JPS 1917

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And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

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**Who acts:** daughter, life, thing · **What happens:** love, tell, please · **To what, where:** David, Saul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 18:20 · 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 (daughter, life, thing), 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:534
# text = And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Michal	Michal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pleased	please	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Michal's daughter | David |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer david=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | life |  | Saul |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saul=Recipient |
| 3 | **please** | past | the thing | David |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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וַתֶּאֱהַ֛ב מִיכַ֥ל בַּת־שָׁא֖וּל אֶת־דָּוִ֑ד וַיַּגִּ֣דוּ לְשָׁא֔וּל וַיִּשַׁ֥ר הַדָּבָ֖ר בְּעֵינָֽיו׃

[1 Samuel 18:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.20/)

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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:534` 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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