--- title: 1 Samuel 25:25 (JPS 1917) — Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; f… · tree and pragmatics description: Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and churlishness is with him; but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. 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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 (you, I, name, churlishness), 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:746 # text = Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and churlishness is with him; but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 1 advmod _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 regard regard VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 Nabal Nabal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 Nabal Nabal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 churlishness churlishness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 conj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 handmaid handmaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 43 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 55 obj _ _ 53 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 55 nsubj _ _ 54 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 acl:relcl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my lord | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 2 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **regard** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this base fellow | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | name | name's name | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | churlishness | | | | | with fellow | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **see** | past | I | the young men of my lord | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 7 | **send** | past · do-support | thou | the young men of my lord | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 8 | **name** | | fellow | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אַל־נָ֣א יָשִׂ֣ים אֲדֹנִ֣י ׀ אֶת־לִבּ֡וֹ אֶל־אִישׁ֩ הַבְּלִיַּ֨עַל הַזֶּ֜ה עַל־נָבָ֗ל כִּ֤י כִשְׁמוֹ֙ כֶּן־ה֔וּא נָבָ֣ל שְׁמ֔וֹ וּנְבָלָ֖ה עִמּ֑וֹ וַֽאֲנִי֙ אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔ לֹ֥א רָאִ֛יתִי אֶת־נַעֲרֵ֥י אֲדֹנִ֖י אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁלָֽחְתָּ׃ [1 Samuel 25:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:746` 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 25:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.745/) - next →: [1 Samuel 25:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.747/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 25:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.25/)