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title: 1 Samuel 20:7 (JPS 1917) — If he say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he… · tree and pragmatics
description: If he say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him. Who acts: David, leave, servant. 1 Samuel 20:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 20:7 · JPS 1917

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If he say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.

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**Who acts:** David, leave, servant · **What happens:** say, be, have, know, determine · **To what, where:** peace, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 20:7 · 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 (David, leave, servant), 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:582
# text = If he say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | David |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | leave |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | shall | thy servant | peace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | David |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | leave *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **determine** | present · passive | David | evil |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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אִם־כֹּ֥ה יֹאמַ֛ר ט֖וֹב שָׁל֣וֹם לְעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְאִם־חָרֹ֤ה יֶֽחֱרֶה֙ ל֔וֹ דַּ֕ע כִּֽי־כָלְתָ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מֵעִמּֽוֹ׃

[1 Samuel 20:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.7/)

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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:582` 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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