--- title: 1 Samuel 25:15 (JPS 1917) — But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither mi… · tree and pragmatics description: But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields; Who acts: men, we. 1 Samuel 25:15 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.736/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/25/) / [25:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.15/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 25:15 · JPS 1917 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields; **Who acts:** men, we · **What happens:** be, not hurt, miss, go · **To what, where:** we, thing, fields This is 1 Samuel 25:15 · 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 (men, 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:736 # text = But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 17 cc _ _ 17 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 advcl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the men | | | | | unto us; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **hurt** | past · passive | | we | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **miss** | past | we | any thing | | | | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | past | we | | | | | with bread | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | | 5 | **is** | past | we | | | the fields | | | 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} וְהָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים טֹבִ֥ים לָ֖נוּ מְאֹ֑ד וְלֹ֤א הָכְלַ֙מְנוּ֙ וְלֹֽא־פָקַ֣דְנוּ מְא֔וּמָה כָּל־יְמֵי֙ הִתְהַלַּ֣כְנוּ אִתָּ֔ם בִּֽהְיוֹתֵ֖נוּ בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃ [1 Samuel 25:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:736` 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 25:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.735/) - next →: [1 Samuel 25:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.737/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 25:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.15/)