--- title: 1 Samuel 20:37 (JPS 1917) — And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan h… · tree and pragmatics description: And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said: 'Is not the arrow beyond thee?' 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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 (Jonathan), 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:615 # text = And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said: 'Is not the arrow beyond thee?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 shot shoot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 18 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 ccomp _ _ 32 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nmod _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past · passive | | the lad | | | | to the place of the arrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **shoot** | past · perfect | Jonathan | the arrow | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Jonathan | | | | after the lad | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jonathan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | | the arrow | | | | beyond thee | tree rules | 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} וַיָּבֹ֤א הַנַּ֙עַר֙ עַד־מְק֣וֹם הַחֵ֔צִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָרָ֖ה יְהוֹנָתָ֑ן וַיִּקְרָ֨א יְהוֹנָתָ֜ן אַחֲרֵ֤י הַנַּ֙עַר֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר הֲל֥וֹא הַחֵ֖צִי מִמְּךָ֥ וָהָֽלְאָה׃ [1 Samuel 20:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:615` 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. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 20:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.614/) - next →: [1 Samuel 20:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.616/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 20:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.37/)