---
title: 1 Samuel 21:16 (JPS 1917) — Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?' Who acts: I, ye, fellow. 1 Samuel 21:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.636/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.16/) / JPS 1

# 1 Samuel 21:16 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, ye, fellow · **What happens:** lack, bring, play, come · **To what, where:** madmen, fellow, madman, presence, house

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 1 Samuel 21:16 · 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 (I, ye, fellow), 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:636
# text = Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?'
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	madmen	madman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=express, indirect=1, polarity=neg

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** | present · do-support | I | madmen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect | ye |  | this fellow |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fellow=Destination |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | the madman |  | my presence |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madman=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | shall | this fellow |  |  | my house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
חֲסַ֤ר מְשֻׁגָּעִים֙ אָ֔נִי כִּי־הֲבֵאתֶ֣ם אֶת־זֶ֔ה לְהִשְׁתַּגֵּ֖עַ עָלָ֑י הֲזֶ֖ה יָב֥וֹא אֶל־בֵּיתִֽי׃ס

[1 Samuel 21:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.16/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:636` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [1 Samuel 21:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.635/)
- next →: [1 Samuel 22:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.637/)
- ↑ back to [1 Samuel 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.16/)