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title: 1 Samuel 25:32 (JPS 1917) — And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me; Who acts: David, LORD. 1 Samuel 25:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 25:32 · JPS 1917

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And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me;

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**Who acts:** David, LORD · **What happens:** say, bless, send, meet · **To what, where:** Abigail, LORD, thee, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Samuel 25:32 · 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, 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:754
# text = And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me;
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Abigail	Abigail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  | Abigail |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to abigail=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | the LORD | thee |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר דָּוִ֖ד לַאֲבִיגַ֑ל בָּר֤וּךְ יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר שְׁלָחֵ֛ךְ הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לִקְרָאתִֽי׃

[1 Samuel 25:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.32/)

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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:754` 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.

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