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title: 1 Samuel 18:30 (JPS 1917) — Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David prospered more than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by. Who acts: princes, spirit, David, Saul. 1 Samuel 18:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# 1 Samuel 18:30 · JPS 1917

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Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David prospered more than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

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**Who acts:** princes, spirit, David, Saul · **What happens:** go, come, pass, prosper, set by, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is 1 Samuel 18:30 · 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 (princes, spirit, David, Saul), 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:547
# text = Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David prospered more than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	40	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	much	much	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the princes of the Philistines |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | spirit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prosper** | past | David |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **set by** | past · passive |  | Saul's name |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 7 | **name** |  | Saul |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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וַיֵּצְא֖וּ שָׂרֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיְהִ֣י ׀ מִדֵּ֣י צֵאתָ֗ם שָׂכַ֤ל דָּוִד֙ מִכֹּל֙ עַבְדֵ֣י שָׁא֔וּל וַיִּיקַ֥ר שְׁמ֖וֹ מְאֹֽד׃ס

[1 Samuel 18:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.30/)

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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:547` 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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