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title: 1 Samuel 20:15 (JPS 1917) — but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever;… · tree and pragmatics
description: but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.' Who acts: thou, LORD. 1 Samuel 20:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 20:15 · JPS 1917

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but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.'

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** not cut off · **To what, where:** kindness, house, enemies, face

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This is 1 Samuel 20:15 · 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 (thou, LORD), 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:590
# text = but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.'
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=promise, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cut off** | shall | thou | thy kindness |  | my house |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **cut off** | present · perfect | the LORD | the enemies of David  every one |  | the face of the earth |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme from face=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְלֹֽא־תַכְרִ֧ת אֶֽת־חַסְדְּךָ֛ מֵעִ֥ם בֵּיתִ֖י עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם וְלֹ֗א בְּהַכְרִ֤ת יְהוָה֙ אֶת־אֹיְבֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אִ֕ישׁ מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 20:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.15/)

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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:590` 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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