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title: 1 Samuel 24:8 (JPS 1917) — So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to… · tree and pragmatics
description: So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. Who acts: David. 1 Samuel 24:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 24:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** check, suffer, not rise · **To what, where:** men, Saul

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This is 1 Samuel 24:8 · 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:703
# text = So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | David | David's men |  |  |  | with this words | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | David *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **rise** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* |  |  | Saul |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against saul=Location |

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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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וַיְשַׁסַּ֨ע דָּוִ֤ד אֶת־אֲנָשָׁיו֙ בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א נְתָנָ֖ם לָק֣וּם אֶל־שָׁא֑וּל וְשָׁא֛וּל קָ֥ם מֵהַמְּעָרָ֖ה וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃ס

[1 Samuel 24:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.**
2. [And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.704/)

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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:703` 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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