--- title: 1 Samuel 25:13 (JPS 1917) — And David said unto his men: 'Gird ye on every man his sword.' And t… · tree and pragmatics description: And David said unto his men: 'Gird ye on every man his sword.' And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage. 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And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage. **Who acts:** David, ye, bread, hundred men · **What happens:** say, gird, go up · **To what, where:** sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 25:13 · 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 (David, ye, bread, hundred men), 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:734 # text = And David said unto his men: 'Gird ye on every man his sword.' And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Gird gird VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 18 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 girded gird VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 girded gird VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 compound _ _ 43 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 compound _ _ 48 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 abode hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 conj _ _ 50 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 baggage baggage NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | | | | unto David's men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **gird** | infinitive | ye | | | | | on every man man's sword | tree rules | | 3 | **gird** | past | bread | man's sword | | | | on every man | tree rules | | 4 | **gird** | past | David | | | man's sword | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go up** | past | hundred men | | | there | after David | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וַיֹּאמֶר֩ דָּוִ֨ד לַאֲנָשָׁ֜יו חִגְר֣וּ ׀ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־חַרְבּ֗וֹ וַֽיַּחְגְּרוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־חַרְבּ֔וֹ וַיַּחְגֹּ֥ר גַּם־דָּוִ֖ד אֶת־חַרְבּ֑וֹ וַֽיַּעֲל֣וּ ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֗ד כְּאַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֔ישׁ וּמָאתַ֖יִם יָשְׁב֥וּ עַל־הַכֵּלִֽים׃ [1 Samuel 25:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:734` 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 25:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.733/) - next →: [1 Samuel 25:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.735/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 25:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.13/)