--- title: 1 Samuel 26:16 (JPS 1917) — As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watc… · tree and pragmatics description: As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. Who acts: LORD, ye. 1 Samuel 26:16 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.784/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/26/) / [26:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.16/) / JPS 2 # 1 Samuel 26:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. **Who acts:** LORD, ye · **What happens:** live, deserve, die, not keep, anoint · **To what, where:** watch This is 1 Samuel 26:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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, ye), 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:784 # text = As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 liveth live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 deserve deserve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 16 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 'S 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 anointed anoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 appos _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **deserve** | present | ye | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **keep** | present · perfect | ye | watch | | | | over your lord | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over lord=Location | | 5 | **anoint** | participle | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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} לֹא־ט֞וֹב הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּה֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂיתָ֒ חַי־יְהוָ֗ה כִּ֤י בְנֵי־מָ֙וֶת֙ אַתֶּ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־שְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם עַל־אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֖ם עַל־מְשִׁ֣יחַ יְהוָ֑ה וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ רְאֵ֗ה אֵֽי־חֲנִ֥ית הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְאֶת־צַפַּ֥חַת הַמַּ֖יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃ [1 Samuel 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.16/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [This thing is not good that thou hast done.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.783/) 2. **As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed.** 3. [And now, see, where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.785/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:784` 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 26:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.783/) - next →: [1 Samuel 26:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.785/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 26:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.16/)