--- title: 1 Samuel 23:5 (JPS 1917) — And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistine… · tree and pragmatics description: And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. Who acts: David. 1 Samuel 23:5 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.665/) [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/) / [23:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.5/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 23:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. **Who acts:** David · **What happens:** go, fight, bring away, slay · **To what, where:** Keilah, cattle, Philistines This is 1 Samuel 23:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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:665 # text = And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Keilah Keilah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Philistines philistine PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 away away ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | David and David's men | | | Keilah | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to keilah=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **fight** | past | David and David's men *not said here* | | | | | with the Philistines | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with philistine=Co-Agent | | 3 | **bring away** | past | David and David's men *not said here* | | Philistines's cattle | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination | | 4 | **slay** | past | David and David's men *not said here* | Philistines *= philistine* | | | | with a great slaughter | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with slaughter=Instrument | 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} וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִד֩ וַאֲנָשָׁ֨יו קְעִילָ֜ה וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֗ים וַיִּנְהַג֙ אֶת־מִקְנֵיהֶ֔ם וַיַּ֥ךְ בָּהֶ֖ם מַכָּ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣שַׁע דָּוִ֔ד אֵ֖ת יֹשְׁבֵ֥י קְעִילָֽה׃ס [1 Samuel 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.5/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter.** 2. [So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.666/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:665` 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.664/) - next →: [1 Samuel 23:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.666/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 23:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.5/)