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title: 1 Samuel 25:29 (JPS 1917) — And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet… · tree and pragmatics
description: And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling. Who acts: lord. 1 Samuel 25:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# 1 Samuel 25:29 · JPS 1917

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And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.

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**Who acts:** lord · **What happens:** rise up, pursue, seek, bind, sling out · **To what, where:** man, thee, soul, bundle, souls

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This is 1 Samuel 25:29 · 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 (lord), 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:750
# text = And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	sling	sling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
48	out	out	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | infinitive · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | thy soul |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 4 | **bind** | shall · passive |  | the soul of my lord |  | the bundle of life |  | with the LORD | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with lord=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **sling out** | shall | lord | the souls of thine enemies |  |  |  | as the hollow of a sling | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent soul=Destination they=Theme |

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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}

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וַיָּ֤קָם אָדָם֙ לִרְדָפְךָ֔ וּלְבַקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ וְֽהָיְתָה֩ נֶ֨פֶשׁ אֲדֹנִ֜י צְרוּרָ֣ה ׀ בִּצְר֣וֹר הַחַיִּ֗ים אֵ֚ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְאֵ֨ת נֶ֤פֶשׁ אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙ יְקַלְּעֶ֔נָּה בְּת֖וֹךְ כַּ֥ף הַקָּֽלַע׃

[1 Samuel 25:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.29/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:750` of Mova's parse database.

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