--- title: 1 Samuel 25:7 (JPS 1917) — And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now… · tree and pragmatics description: And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. 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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 (I, thou, shepherds, we), 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:728 # text = And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 shearers shearer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 30 cc _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 29 aught aught PRON NN PronType=Ind 30 nsubj _ _ 30 missing missing VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Carmel Carmel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | | | | now | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | thou | shearers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shearer=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present · perfect | thy shepherds | | | | now | with us | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | we | no hurt | shepherds *= shepherd* | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | aught | | | there | | unto shepherds *= shepherd*; missing *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | shepherds *= shepherd* | | | Carmel | while | | tree rules | 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} וְעַתָּ֣ה שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֥י גֹזְזִ֖ים לָ֑ךְ עַתָּ֗ה הָרֹעִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר־לְךָ֙ הָי֣וּ עִמָּ֔נוּ לֹ֣א הֶכְלַמְנ֗וּם וְלֹֽא־נִפְקַ֤ד לָהֶם֙ מְא֔וּמָה כָּל־יְמֵ֖י הֱיוֹתָ֥ם בַּכַּרְמֶֽל׃ [1 Samuel 25:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:728` 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 25:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.727/) - next →: [1 Samuel 25:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.729/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 25:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.7/)