--- title: 1 Samuel 21:8 (JPS 1917) — Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detain… · tree and pragmatics description: Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. — Who acts: certain man, name, herdmen, man. 1 Samuel 21:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.627/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/21/) / [21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.8/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 21:8 · JPS 1917 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. — **Who acts:** certain man, name, herdmen, man · **What happens:** be, detain, belong, name · **To what, where:** Doeg, Saul This is 1 Samuel 21:8 · 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 (certain man, name, herdmen, man), 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:627 # text = Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. — 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 detained detain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 Doeg Doeg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Edomite Edomite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 chiefest chiefest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 herdmen herdmen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 38 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a certain man of the servants of Saul | | | | now; day | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **detain** | participle | a certain man of the servants of Saul *not said here* | | | | before the LORD | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | man's name | Doeg | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **belong** | past | the herdmen | | Saul | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | man | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְשָׁ֡ם אִישׁ֩ מֵעַבְדֵ֨י שָׁא֜וּל בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא נֶעְצָר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וּשְׁמ֖וֹ דֹּאֵ֣ג הָאֲדֹמִ֑י אַבִּ֥יר הָרֹעִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְשָׁאֽוּל׃ [1 Samuel 21:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:627` 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 21:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.626/) - next →: [1 Samuel 21:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.628/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.8/)