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title: 1 Samuel 20:23 (JPS 1917) — And as touching the matter which I and thou have spoken of, behold,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as touching the matter which I and thou have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between me and thee for ever.' Who acts: LORD, I. 1 Samuel 20:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 20:23 · JPS 1917

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And as touching the matter which I and thou have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between me and thee for ever.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** touch, speak, be · **To what, where:** matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 20:23 · 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 (LORD, 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:599
# text = And as touching the matter which I and thou have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between me and thee for ever.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	conj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme matter=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of the matter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | between me | tree rules |

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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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וְהַ֨דָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְנוּ אֲנִ֣י וָאָ֑תָּה הִנֵּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵינְךָ֖ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃ס

[1 Samuel 20:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.23/)

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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:599` 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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