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title: 1 Samuel 20:21 (JPS 1917) — And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows. · tree and pragmatics
description: And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows. Who acts: I. 1 Samuel 20:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 20:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, go, find · **To what, where:** lad, arrows

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This is 1 Samuel 20:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (I), 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:596
# text = And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | future | I | the lad |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive |  | the arrows |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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וְהִנֵּה֙ אֶשְׁלַ֣ח אֶת־הַנַּ֔עַר לֵ֖ךְ מְצָ֣א אֶת־הַחִצִּ֑ים אִם־אָמֹר֩ אֹמַ֨ר לַנַּ֜עַר הִנֵּ֥ה הַחִצִּ֣ים ׀ מִמְּךָ֣ וָהֵ֗נָּה קָחֶ֧נּוּ ׀ וָבֹ֛אָה כִּֽי־שָׁל֥וֹם לְךָ֛ וְאֵ֥ין דָּבָ֖ר חַי־יְהוָֽה׃

[1 Samuel 20:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows.**
2. [If I say unto the lad: Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee; take them, and come; for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as the LORD liveth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.597/)

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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:596` 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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