--- title: 1 Samuel 23:4 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.' Who acts: LORD, I. 1 Samuel 23:4 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.664/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/23/) / [23:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.4/) / JPS 2 # 1 Samuel 23:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.' **Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** answer, say, arise, go down, deliver · **To what, where:** David, Keilah, Philistines, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 23:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (LORD, I), 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:664 # text = And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Arise arise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Keilah Keilah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Philistines philistine PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | David | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **arise** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go down** | infinitive | | | Keilah | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **deliver** | future | I | the Philistines | | thy hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent philistine=Patient | 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} וַיּ֨וֹסֶף ע֤וֹד דָּוִד֙ לִשְׁאֹ֣ל בַּֽיהוָ֔הס וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֖הוּ יְהוָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר ק֚וּם רֵ֣ד קְעִילָ֔ה כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י נֹתֵ֛ן אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ [1 Samuel 23:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Then David inquired of the LORD yet again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.663/) 2. **And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:664` 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 23:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.663/) - next →: [1 Samuel 23:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.665/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 23:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.4/)