--- title: 1 Samuel 22:23 (JPS 1917) — Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh th… · tree and pragmatics description: Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.' Who acts: thou, David. 1 Samuel 22:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.659/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/22/) / [22:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.23/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 22:23 · JPS 1917 Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.' **Who acts:** thou, David · **What happens:** abide, not fear, seek, be · **To what, where:** life, safeguard This is 1 Samuel 22:23 · 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 (thou, David), 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:659 # text = Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.' 1 Abide abide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 seeketh seek VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 seeketh seek VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 safeguard safeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **abide** | infinitive | thou | | | | | with me | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **seek** | present | | my life | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 4 | **seek** | present | David | thy life | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 5 | **is** | shall | thou | | | safeguard | | with me | 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} שְׁבָ֤ה אִתִּי֙ אַל־תִּירָ֔א כִּ֛י אֲשֶׁר־יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י יְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ כִּֽי־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת אַתָּ֖ה עִמָּדִֽי׃ [1 Samuel 22:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:659` 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 22:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.658/) - next →: [1 Samuel 23:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.660/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 22:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.23/)