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title: 1 Samuel 22:18 (JPS 1917) — And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.' A… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.' And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. Who acts: king, thou, Doeg, fourscore persons. 1 Samuel 22:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# 1 Samuel 22:18 · JPS 1917

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And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.' And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

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**Who acts:** king, thou, Doeg, fourscore persons · **What happens:** say, turn, fall, slay, wear · **To what, where:** Doeg, priests, fourscore persons, linen ephod · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 22:18 · 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 (king, thou, Doeg, fourscore persons), 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:654
# text = And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.' And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Doeg	Doeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Doeg	Doeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Edomite	Edomite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
41	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  | Doeg |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to doeg=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | the priests |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon priest=Location |
| 4 | **turn** | past | Doeg |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | king |  |  | the priests |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon priest=Location |
| 6 | **slay** | past | king | fourscore persons |  |  | day |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
| 7 | **wear** | past · do-support | fourscore persons | a linen ephod |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ephod=Source |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְדוֹאֵ֔ג סֹ֣ב אַתָּ֔ה וּפְגַ֖ע בַּכֹּהֲנִ֑ים וַיִּסֹּ֞ב דּוֹאֵ֣ג הָאֲדֹמִ֗י וַיִּפְגַּע־הוּא֙ בַּכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וַיָּ֣מֶת ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא שְׁמֹנִ֤ים וַחֲמִשָּׁה֙ אִ֔ישׁ נֹשֵׂ֖א אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

[1 Samuel 22:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.18/)

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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:654` 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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