--- title: 1 Samuel 26:17 (JPS 1917) — And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son Da… · tree and pragmatics description: And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, O king.' Who acts: Saul, this, David, voice. 1 Samuel 26:17 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.786/) [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/) / [26:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.17/) / JPS 1 # 1 Samuel 26:17 · JPS 1917 And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, O king.' **Who acts:** Saul, this, David, voice · **What happens:** know, say, be · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 1 Samuel 26:17 · 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 (Saul, this, David, voice), 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:786 # text = And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, O king.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 vocative _ _ 19 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 27 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 vocative _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 O o INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 vocative _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Saul | David's voice | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Saul *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | this | thy voice | | | | my son *vocative* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | voice | my voice | | | | my lord *vocative*; king *vocative* | 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} וַיַּכֵּ֤ר שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת־ק֣וֹל דָּוִ֔ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הֲקוֹלְךָ֥ זֶ֖ה בְּנִ֣י דָוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔ד קוֹלִ֖י אֲדֹנִ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [1 Samuel 26:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:786` 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.785/) - next →: [1 Samuel 26:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.787/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 26:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.17/)