--- title: 1 Samuel 23:5 (JPS 1917) — So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. · tree and pragmatics description: So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. 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.666/) [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 2 # 1 Samuel 23:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. **Who acts:** David · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** inhabitants This is 1 Samuel 23:5 · 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 (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:666 # text = So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Keilah Keilah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **save** | past | David | the inhabitants of Keilah | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme | 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.665/) 2. **So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:666` 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 23:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.665/) - next →: [1 Samuel 23:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.667/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 23:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.5/)