--- title: 1 Samuel 24:20 (JPS 1917) — For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore… · tree and pragmatics description: For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day. Who acts: man, LORD, David, thou. 1 Samuel 24:20 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.716/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/24/) / [24:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.20/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 24:20 · JPS 1917 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day. **Who acts:** man, LORD, David, thou · **What happens:** find, let, go, reward, do · **To what, where:** enemy, David, thee This is 1 Samuel 24:20 · 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 (man, LORD, David, thou), 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:716 # text = For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 17 wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reward reward VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 27 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man | LORD's enemy | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Topic | | 2 | **let** | future | LORD | David | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | David *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reward** | present | the LORD | thee | | | | good, wherefore *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | | | | day | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | 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} וְכִֽי־יִמְצָ֥א אִישׁ֙ אֶת־אֹ֣יְב֔וֹ וְשִׁלְּח֖וֹ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ טוֹבָ֑ה וַֽיהוָה֙ יְשַׁלֶּמְךָ֣ טוֹבָ֔ה תַּ֚חַת הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִׂ֖יתָה לִֽי׃ [1 Samuel 24:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:716` 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 24:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.715/) - next →: [1 Samuel 24:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.717/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 24:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.20/)